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Ministerial Portfolios at a Glance

John Hutton, Secretary of State, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform

• Holds overall responsibility for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and its policies.

Lord Drayson (also an MoD Minister), Minister of State for Business, and Regulatory Reform

• Aerospace, Marine and Defence business sectors
• Business Council for Britain
• The Better Regulation Executive
• Better Regulation within BERR

Stephen Timms, Minister of State for Competitiveness

• Enterprise, growth & business investment
• Strengthening regional economies
• Small business service including business support simplification
• Business sectors including: E-commerce; Communications and Information Industries; Creative Industries; Retail; Bioscience; Pharmaceuticals; Chemicals; Construction; Automotive; Manufacturing; Steel
• British Shipbuilders (health claims)
• Corporate governance
• Companies Act implementation
• Companies House
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Shareholder Executive general oversight with specific responsibility for the Industrial Development Unit

Sir Digby Jones (jointly with FCO), Minister of State for Trade and Investment

• UK Trade & Investment

Pat McFadden, Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs

• Employment Relations
• ACAS
• Postal policy and Shareholder Executive: Royal Mail and Post Office
• Skills
• Insolvency Service (including companies investigations)

Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy

• Energy policy
• Sustainability & the environment
• Security of energy supply
• Fuel poverty
• Nuclear security
• WEEE Directive
• Coal Health Claims Unit
• Asbestos claims
• Shareholder Executive: Energy portfolio
• Export Controls
• ECGD

Gareth Thomas (also a DfID Minister), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Consumer Affairs

• Trade policy
• EU competitiveness and the Single Market
• Services Directive
• Consumer Affairs
• Competition Issues