Catalogue description Records of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Details of BIS
Reference: BIS
Title: Records of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Description:

Records of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

Date: 2006-2023
Related material:

For records of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform , see: SR

For records of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), see BEIS

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 2016-

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2009-2016

Physical description: 185 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was created on 6 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). The new department's key role is to build Britain's capabilities to compete in the global economy and the merger of BERR and DIUS brought together the parts of the government with key expertise in these areas.

On 14 July 2016, BIS was merged with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to create the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Additionally, BIS’s higher and further education and apprenticeships responsibilities were transferred to the Department for Education, while BIS also lost its responsibility for trade and investment policy to a newly-created Department for International Trade.

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