Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform will be the voice of business in Government, leading work to create the conditions for business success, through competitive and flexible markets that create value for business, consumers and employees; and working across Government and the regions to raise levels of productivity.
Contact information
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Address: 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET
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Website: www.berr.gov.uk [External website]
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Telephone: 020 7215 5000
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Email: firstname.lastname@berr.gsi.gov.uk
Parliamentary Branch
Ministerial & Treat Officially Correspondence Section:
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Ministers
John Hutton
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: The Rt Hon John Hutton MP
Leads on:
- The Secretary of State holds overall responsibility for the business of the Department and its policies.
Private Office to John Hutton
Digby Jones
Minister of State for Trade Promotion and Investment: Lord Jones of Birmingham ( jointly with FCO )
Leads on:
- UK Trade & Investment
- Defence business sector
Private Office to Lord Jones of Birmingham
Pat McFadden
Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs: Pat McFadden MP
Leads on:
- Employment Relations
- ACAS
- Postal policy
- The Post Office and Royal Mail
- Insolvency Service (including companies investigations)
- Skills
- Strengthening regional economies
Private Office to Pat McFadden
Malcolm Wicks
Minister of State for Energy: Malcolm Wicks MP
Leads on:
- Energy policy
- Sustainability & the environment
- Security of energy supply
- Fuel poverty
- Nuclear security
- WEEE Directive
- Coal Health Claims Unit
- Asbestos claims
- British shipbuilders health claims
- Corporate social responsibility
- The energy portfolio of the Shareholder Executive
- Export Controls
- Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD)
Private Office to Malcolm Wicks
Baroness Shriti
Vadera
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Competitiveness): Baroness Shriti Vadera
Leads on:
- Competitiveness
- Enterprise
- Growth and business investment
- Overview of relationships with business
- Business Council for Britain
- Business Environment Unit
- Better Regulation Executive
- Better regulation within BERR
- Business support simplification
- Business sectors (aerospace, marine, e-commerce, communications and information industries, bioscience, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, construction, automotive, manufacturing, creative industries, retail, steel)
- General oversight of the Shareholder Executive and its portfolios.
Private Office to Baroness Shriti Vadera
Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Consumer Affairs: Gareth Thomas MP
Leads on:
- Trade Policy (a shared BERR/DFID responsibility
- EU competitiveness and the Single Market
- Services Directive
- Consumer affairs
- Competition issues
- Corporate governance
- Companies Act implementation
- Companies House
Please see Gareth Thomas' additional responsibilities as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DFID.
Private Office to Gareth Thomas
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Private Office
Private Office to John Hutton
Private Office to Lord Jones of Birmingham
Private Office to Pat McFadden
Private Office to Malcolm Wicks
Private Office to Baroness Shriti Vadera
Private Office to Gareth Thomas
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Executive Agencies
Companies House
Companies House incorporates and dissolves companies, registers the information they are required to supply under companies and related legislation and makes that information available to the public.
Insolvency Service
The Insolvency Service administers and investigates the affairs of bankrupts and companies in compulsory liquidations and reports criminal offences; takes disqualification proceedings against unfit directors of failed companies; authorises and regulates insolvency practitioners; provides banking and investment services for bankruptcies and company liquidations; and provides policy advice to Ministers.
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