Publication scheme

This publication scheme specifies the categories of information that BEIS and its agencies regularly publish and explains how to get that information.

This information page was withdrawn on 11 May 2023

This information is no longer current.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was replaced by:

• Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
• Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

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Department for
Business, Energy
& Industrial Strategy

You can find specific documents for this department using the publication search.

If the information you want is not routinely published, you can make a request for it under the Freedom of Information Act.

You can also search through previous responses to Freedom of Information requests.

Who we are and what we do

This information covers our organisational details, structures, locations and contacts. This includes:

• our organisational structure, roles and responsibilities
• details of our ministers’ meetings with external organisations
• details of senior staff’s meetings with external organisations
• details of special advisers’ meetings with external organisations
• information about the organisations the department is responsible for, works in partnership with, or sponsors
• legislation relevant to our functions
• our answers to Parliamentary Questions
• our location and contact details

What we spend and how we spend it

This is where we publish financial information about projected and actual income, expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audits. This includes:

• our annual accounts
• spending for transactions over £25,000
• contracts and tenders worth over £10,000
• government procurement card spend over £500
• financial audit reports published by the National Audit Office
• our ministers’ allowances and expenses
• our senior staff and board members’ allowances and expenses

What our priorities are and how we are doing

This information covers departmental strategies and plans, performance indicators, audits, inspections and reviews, including:

• our outcome delivery plan
• our annual reports
• our Permanent Secretary’s objectives
• the impact assessments we have made
• our statistics

How we make decisions

This is where we publish details of our decision-making processes and records of our decisions. These include:

• the department’s major policy proposals and decisions
• our research and analysis
• our public consultations

Our policies and procedures

This information covers our protocols, policies and procedures for providing services, and responsibilities, including:

• how we conduct departmental business
• our complaints procedure
• our records management and personal data policies

Lists and registers

This is where we publish details of the department’s public registers, asset registers and disclosure logs, including:

• our public registers and registers held as public records
• the department’s disclosure logs listing FOI requests
• the register of gifts for ministers and special advisers
• a register of ministers’ interests

Data and datasets

Datasets published by BEIS can be found on data.gov.uk.