Catalogue description Records of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

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Title: Records of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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Records of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.
Date: 2001-2019
Related material:

For records created or inherited by the (second) Department of Trade and Industry (1983-2007), see: NK

For records of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, see: BIS

For records of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, see: BEIS
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 2007-2009
Physical description: 36 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was created on 28 June 2007 to bring together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) with the Better Regulation Executive which was transferred from the Cabinet Office. BERR's main areas were essentially those previously covered by the DTI: Company, Employment and Consumer Law; Trade; Business Growth; and Regional Economic Development.

In October 2008, responsibility for energy policy was removed when the Energy Group of BERR merged with the Climate Change Group of DEFRA to form the new Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

On 6 June 2009 the remainder of BERR merged with the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to become the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

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