Public Affairs

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Ministers

Vince Cable, secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills

  • BIS strategy and policies
  • BIS budget
  • Business and banking issues
  • Reducing regulatory burdens across government.

David Willetts, minister of state for universities and science

  • Strategic priorities
  • Higher education (including HEFCE and Student Loans Company)
  • Science and research (including Research Councils), life sciences, innovation
  • Technology Strategy Board
  • National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
  • Energy Technologies Institute
  • National Measurement Office
  • Design Council
  • UK Accreditation Service
  • British Standards Institute
  • Space.

John Hayes, minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning

  • Further education
  • Adult skills
  • Skills Funding Agency
  • Skills strategy
  • Lifelong learning
  • Informal adult learning
  • Apprenticeships
  • UK Commission for Employment and Skills
  • sector skills councils
  • workplace training reforms
  • Qualifications reform programme.


Mark Prisk, minister of state for business and enterprise

  • Business sectors, including low carbon economy
  • Construction
  • Low emission vehicles
  • Electronics
  • Small business
  • Enterprise and access to finance
  • Competitiveness and economic growth
  • Deregulation and better regulation
  • Regional and local economic development (including grants for business investment)
  • Business support
  • Olympic legacy
  • Export licensing

Ed Davey, minister for employment relations, consumer and postal affairs

  • Postal affairs (Royal Mail and Post Office Limited),
  • Employment relations (including ACAS)
  • Consumer policy and consumer affairs
  • Competition policy
  • Corporate governance
  • Company law (including Companies House)
  • Social enterprise
  • Insolvency Service (including company investigations)
  • General oversight of shareholder executive and its portfolios
  • Coordination of European business
  • Export Credit Guarantee Department
  • Trade policy

Baroness Wilcox, parliamentary secretary for business, innovation and skills

  • BIS business in the Lords
  • Intellectual property (including the IPO).
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