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  1. Calculating the minimum wage

    • updated
    • Guidance

  2. Business Secretary and Chair of UK Steel hold first meeting of new joint Steel Council

    • updated
    • News story

  3. Government action to support the steel industry

    • updated
    • News story
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What we do

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.

BIS is a ministerial department, supported by 47 agencies and public bodies.

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Our policies

  1. Business enterprise
  2. Exports and inward investment
  3. Research and development
  4. Further education and training
  5. Access to higher education

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Documents

Our announcements

  1. Business Secretary and Chair of UK Steel hold first meeting of new joint Steel Council

    • News story

  2. Government action to support the steel industry

    • News story

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Our consultations

  1. Property ownership and public contracting by foreign companies: improving transparency

    • Closed consultation

  2. Land Registry: moving operations to the private sector

    • Open consultation

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Our publications

  1. Calculating the minimum wage

    • Guidance

  2. Centres for Agricultural Innovation

    • Guidance

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Our statistics

  1. Building materials and components statistics: March 2016

    • National Statistics

  2. Further education and skills: statistical first release

    • National Statistics

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Our ministers

Our management

Contact BIS

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

1 Victoria Street
London

SW1H 0ET

Sheffield office

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

Yorkshire, Humber, North East office

Katherine Cowell
St. George's House
Kingsway
Team Valley
Gateshead
NE11 ONA

West Midlands office

Tony Bray
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ

East Midlands and South East Midlands, including Milton Keynes, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton office

Rowena Limb
APEX Court
City Link
Nottingham
NG2 4LA

East office

Louise Morgan
Eastbrook
Shaftesbury Road

Cambridge
CB2 8DF

South Central and West, office covering rest of South East and South West

Mike Wiltshire
1st Floor
Bridge House
1 Walnut Tree Close
Guildford
GU1 4GA

North West office

Kirsty Pearce
3rd Floor
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
North West
M1 2WD

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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London
SW1H 0ET

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