Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
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Roles
The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) central purpose is to help ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world. It is the voice for business across Government.
The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform:
- leads work to create the conditions for business success through competitive and flexible markets that create value for businesses, consumers and employees
- drives regulatory reform, and works across Government and with the regions to raise levels of UK productivity
- leads on making sustainable improvements in the economic performance of the regions
- is jointly responsible, with DfID and the FCO respectively, for trade policy, and trade promotion and inward investment
- leads the Government’s drive to raise UK levels of productivity, create the conditions for business success and strengthen the economic performance of all the regions
- has the lead responsibility in Whitehall for championing the interests of employees – business’s most important asset
- is responsible for policy on consumers, a vital force for dynamic competitive markets that drive business success
- is strongly committed to sustainable development
The Department will provide support to the new Business Council for Britain. The Council, made up of senior business leaders, will assist the Government in putting in place the right strategy to promote the long-term health of the UK economy.
The Department will also work closely with the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). DIUS will be responsible for driving forward the Government’s long-term vision to make Britain one of the best places in the world for science, research and innovation, and to deliver the ambition of a world class skills base.
Reporting Hierarchy
BERR is headed by John Hutton, the first Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Brian Bender is BERR’s Permanent Secretary.
