Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was a department of the United Kingdom Government/ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government created on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). It was disbanded on the creation of the Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 14 July 2016.