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Department for Business Innovation & Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is the department for economic growth. The department invests in skills and education to promote trade, boost innovation and help people to start and grow a business. BIS also protects consumers and reduces the impact of regulation.

Responsibilities

BIS state that they are responsible for:

working with further and higher education providers to give students the skills they need to compete in a global employment market;
supporting innovation and developing the UK’s science and research industry, which is important to help economic growth;
making sure consumer law is fair for both consumers and businesses, and that consumers know their rights and are able to use them effectively;
supporting British businesses to increase productivity and compete anywhere in the world; and
better regulation - by cutting the amount of regulation and making it easy to understand we can help businesses cut time, save money and be more efficient

Priorities

In 2012/13, their priorities were stated to include:

•supplying ?100 million to universities for long-term research projects,
introducing a new loans system for further education students,
creating a single Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) in England to replace the 8 previous regional services,
making the UK one of the fastest and easiest countries in the world to set up a new business,
extending the right to request flexible working and develop a new system of shared parental leave,
ending the culture of ‘tick-box’ regulation, and instead target inspections on high-risk organisations through co-regulation and improving professional standards, and
giving the public and businesses the opportunity to challenge the worst regulations.

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET

Email
enquiries@bis.gsi.gov.uk

Telephone
020 7215 5000

Website
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-skills

Sheffield office

2 St Paul's Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
S1 2FJ

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