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• P2P

  See Digital content

• Package travel

  See Buying and selling goods and services

• Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive

  See Environmental and Technical Regulation

• Partnership law

  See Company and partnership law

• Patents

  See Intellectual Property Office

• paternity leave

  See Employment strategy

• Pharmaceuticals

  See Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare

• Phones

  See Telecommunications

• Plastics industry

  See Chemicals industry

• Post Office Network

  See Postal services sector

• Postal Services

  See Postal services sector

• Postal services sector

  22 Sep 2010

  BIS is responsible for formulating and implementing policy for the UK postal services sector and also for managing the Government's shareholding in the Royal Mail. Please navigate the site to find out more information.

• Preparing Impact Assessments

  5 Aug 2010

  Guidance, tools and templates to help policy-makers across the UK government to prepare Impact Assessments (IAs).

• Prepayments

  See Consumer White Paper

• Preventing violent extremism

  2 Jul 2010

  BIS works with universities and colleges, representative bodies like the National Union of Students (NUS) and with the police to help manage and identify the risks posed by violent extremism.

• Product Safety

  10 Aug 2010

  Information on the relevant laws and regulations that apply to consumer and product safety policy issues.

• Professional bodies

  See Access to the professions

• Professional recruitment guide

  20 Sep 2010

  Our new guide will help you, an employer of professional people, get the best person for each vacancy you advertise.

• Public sector innovation

  16 Sep 2010

  The Public Sector Innovation Unit supports and enables the public sector to innovate.

• Publishing

  30 Sep 2010

  Information for the publishing industry from BIS's Communications and Content Industries unit.