Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

1, Victoria Street, London
Department overview
Formed	14 July 2016
Preceding agencies	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Department of Energy and Climate Change
Dissolved	7 February 2023
Superseding agencies	Department for Business and Trade Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Jurisdiction	Government of the United Kingdom
Headquarters	1, Victoria Street, London[1]
Annual budget	£13.8 billion (current) in 2016–17[2]
Minister responsible	Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department executive	Permanent Secretary
Child agencies	Companies House HM Land Registry Insolvency Service Intellectual Property Office Met Office UK Space Agency Oil and Gas Authority
Website	gov.uk/beis

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5]