Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
BEIS Overview
In July-2016, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) replaced the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). BEIS aims to drive ahead the amendments which will develop an economy that is suitable to everyone, so that there are numerous inordinate places around the United Kingdom for citizens to work and for businesses to innovate, invest, and grow. BEIS ministers have defined 5 principal objectives for the Department to make available a framework for delivering the Government’s priorities:

Delivering an Ambitious Industrial Strategy
Forming an independent Industrial Strategy Council that will develop measures to assess and evaluate its Industrial Strategy and the Industrial Strategy Council aims to set performance measures in Autumn 2018
- Industrial Strategy looks to build a Britain that is fit for the future
- Looks to support world-leading sectors and launch trials to put the United Kingdom at the forefront of the future industries
- Invest in innovation, science, and research
- Assist businesses to start and grow
- Drive development across the country
Promoting accountable business practices and competitive markets:
- Focus on making certain that businesses run sensibly and transparently
- Promote fairness in the labour market
- Make certain that the United Kingdom has accurate regulatory frameworks to aid consumers and business
- Protect United Kingdom’s interests in investments in national infrastructure
Maximising investment opportunities and strengthening United Kingdom interests
Business investment during Oct-17 to Dec-17 reached £46.2bn
- Promote the interests of the United Kingdom businesses and broader government interests in European Union exit discussions
- Focus on encouraging inward investment
- Work towards ensuring that the UK economy is strong and best placed to grab openings
- Build the profile of the United Kingdom on the international stage
Make certain the United Kingdom has a dependable, clean, and low-cost energy system
- Maximise the advantages for UK industry
- Make sure the energy system is secure and reliable
- Manage energy legacy responsibly
Building an innovative, flexible, and collaborative department
- Enable data, digital and technology to deliver excellent services
Department for Business, Energy &Industrial Strategy brings together the science and business portfolios of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the complete policy range of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), developing the links between environment, business, and energy change and enables a joint focus on markets, users, and investors. The elements of the BIS portfolio that have not been transferred to BEIS encompassed:
- Post-18, education and skills policies, which were transferred to the Department for Education, giving that department complete oversight of education policies
- International trade policies from BIS and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which were brought together to form the Department for International Trade
- Offender learning, which was transferred to the Ministry of Justice
The department is accountable for the United Kingdom Government policy in the below mentioned areas:
- Trade
- Science and research
- Regional and local economic development
- Postal affairs
- Outer space
- Intellectual property
- Insolvency
- Innovation
- Export licensing
- Energy
- Employment relations
- Corporate governance
- Consumer affairs
- Competition
- Company law
- Climate change policy in the United Kingdom
- Business regulation and support
As a ministerial department, BEIS is supported by 37 public bodies and agencies namely:
- Competition and Markets Authority
- HM Land Registry
- Companies House
- HM Land Registry
- Intellectual Property Office
- Met Office
- UK Space Agency
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
- British Hallmarking Council
- Civil Nuclear Police Authority
- Coal Authority
- Committee on Climate Change
- Competition Service
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Small Business Commissioner
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
- UK Research and Innovation
- Committee on Fuel Poverty
- Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
- Council for Science and Technology
- Industrial Development Advisory Board
- Land Registration Rule Committee
- Low Pay Commission
- Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
- Regulatory Policy Committee
- Central Arbitration Committee
- Competition Appeal Tribunal
- Copyright Tribunal
- Ordnance Survey
- British Business Bank
- Certification Officer
- Government Office for Science
- Groceries Code Adjudicator
- Independent Complaints Reviewer
- Office of Manpower Economics
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- Oil and Gas Authority
Non-ministerial department :
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