Responsibilities of the Ministerial team at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
- RT HON LORD MANDELSON: FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS AND LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
Overall responsibility for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Privy Council; working part of time in Cabinet Office as First Secretary of State.
- RT HON PAT MCFADDEN MP: MINISTER FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS (attends Cabinet)
Deputises for Secretary of State on departmental business, particular focus on Industrial Activism - New Industry, New Jobs.
- RT HON LORD DRAYSON: MINISTER FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION (jointly with MoD, attends Cabinet)
Responsible for innovation, Technology Strategy Board, science policy and wealth creation from science, Research Councils, Foresight programme - science and society issues, Space, National Weights and Measures Laboratory, Design Council, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Energy Technologies Institute, Commission for Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, British Standards Institution, UK Accreditation Service, Life Sciences (including Office for Life Sciences and pharmaceutical sector), low carbon economy.
- RT HON ROSIE WINTERTON MP: MINISTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION (jointly with CLG, attends Cabinet when Ministerial responsibilities are on the agenda)
Responsible for strengthening regional economies (including Grants for Business Investment), Regional Development Agencies and sub-national implementation, Solutions for Business (business support simplification).
- RT HON STEPHEN TIMMS: MINISTER FOR DIGITAL BRITAIN (jointly with Treasury)
Responsible for Digital Britain
- RT HON DAVID LAMMY MP: MINISTER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Responsible for building strong relationships across the higher education sector, higher education teaching quality, Higher Education Strategy, Research Assessment Exercise and Research Excellence Framework in higher education, High Level Skills (seeking to increase significantly the number of people qualified to Level 4 (or university level skills) and above), voluntary giving (universities raising independent revenue from donors), student support policy - student grants and loans, all student loans issues, sponsorship of Higher Education Funding Council for England and Student Loans Company, intellectual property issues and the Intellectual Property Office.
- KEVIN BRENNAN MP: MINISTER FOR FURTHER EDUCATION, SKILLS, APPRENTICESHIPS AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS (jointly with DCSF)
Responsible for further education, apprenticeships, Adult Skills Agenda, engaging employers in skills including Train to Gain, National Skills Academies, Sector Skills Councils, UK Commission for Employment and Skills, LSC sponsorship, Skills Funding Agency set-up, competition policy, consumer affairs.
- LORD DAVIES OF ABERSOCH: MINISTER FOR TRADE, INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS (jointly with FCO)
Responsible for UK Trade & Investment (reporting jointly to the Business Secretary and Foreign Secretary), advising the Secretary of State and the Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills on overall business policy, working on specific business issues alongside the Minister for Business and Regulatory Reform, Exports Credits Guarantee Department, Public Service Reform, trade policy, Europe.
- BARONESS VADERA: MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS, SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE (jointly with Cabinet Office)
Responsible for competitiveness, enterprise, growth and business investment, small business, general oversight of Shareholder Executive and its portfolios, Business Council for Britain and the Business Environment Unit.
- IAN LUCAS MP: MINISTER FOR BUSINESS AND REGULATORY REFORM
Responsible for business sectors (aerospace; marine and defence, automotive; chemicals; construction; manufacturing, materials and engineering; retail; services), Better Regulation Executive, better regulation within BIS, Olympic legacy, sustainable development and regulation including waste electrical and electronic equipment issues, Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate governance, Companies Act, Companies House, Insolvency Service (including companies investigations), export control.
- LORD YOUNG OF NORWOOD GREEN: MINISTER FOR POSTAL AFFAIRS AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
Responsible for postal affairs: Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd, encouraging employer support for apprenticeships, student issues, employment relations, ACAS.
Notes:
- Pat McFadden, Lord Drayson, David Lammy, Rosie Winterton, Lord Davies and Kevin Brennan are Ministers of State.
- Stephen Timms, Ian Lucas, Shriti Vadera and Lord Young are Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State.