Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1, Victoria Street, London | |
| Department overview | |
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| Formed | 14 July 2016 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Dissolved | 7 February 2023 |
| Superseding agencies | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of the United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | 1, Victoria Street, London |
| Annual budget | £13.8 billion (current) in 2016–17 |
| Minister responsible | |
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| Child agencies | |
| Website | gov |
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government, from July 2016 to February 2023.
The department was formed during a machinery of government change on 14 July 2016, following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister. It was created by a merger between the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
On 7 February 2023, under the Rishi Sunak premiership, the department was dissolved. Its functions were split into three new departments: the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology. Grant Shapps, the final secretary of state for the old department, became the first Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.