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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade
The Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP
Leads on:
Overall responsibility for the department, strategy and all policies
Overall responsibility for BIS budget
Particular focus on business and banking issues
Lead Cabinet Minister for reducing regulatory burdens across Government
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs)
Edward Davey MP
Leads on:
Postal affairs (Royal Mail and Post Office Limited)
Employment relations (incl. ACAS)
Consumer policy and consumer affairs
Competition policy
Corporate governance
Company law (incl. Companies House)
Social enterprise
Insolvency service (incl. company investigations)
General oversight of Shareholder Executive and its portfolios
Coordination of European business
Export Credits Guarantee
Department Trade Policy
Minister of State (Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning)
John Hayes MP
Leads on:
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
Minister of State (Business and Enterprise)
Mark Prisk MP
Leads on:
Business sectors, including low carbon economy, low emission vehicles, electronics
Small business, enterprise and access to finance
Competitiveness and economic growth
Deregulation and better regulation
Regional and local economic development (incl. Grants for Business Investment)
Business support
Olympic Legacy
Export licensing
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Culture, Communications and Creative Industries)
The Hon Ed Vaizey MP
Leads on:
Arts
Museums and galleries
Media
Telecoms and Broadband
Digital Switchover
Creative Industries
Libraries
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Business, Innovation and Skills)
Baroness Wilcox
Leads on:
Covers all BIS business in the Lords
Intellectual property (including the Intellectual Property Office)
Minister of State (Universities and Science)
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP
Leads on:
Looking across all departmental business at strategic priorities
Higher education (including the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Student Loans Company)
Science and research (including Research Councils)
Life sciences
Innovation
Also responsible for the Technology Strategy Board, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA); Energy Technologies Institute; the National Measurement Office; the Design Council; the UK Accreditation Service; and the British Standards Institute; and Space
