Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)

On 28 June the Government created the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).

The new Department will deliver the Government's long-term vision to make Britain one of the best places in the world for science, research and innovation. It will ensure that the UK has the skilled workforce it needs to compete in the global economy.

The Department is headed by Rt Hon John Denham MP, the first Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills. He will promote effective investment in research, science, innovation and skills, putting these at the heart of the Government's competitiveness strategy.

• Read the Prime Minister's Written Ministerial Statement on the Machinery of Government changes

Here is a list of ministers who work for the Department.

Secretary of State

Rt Hon John Denham MP

Overall responsibility for the Department

Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education

Bill Rammell MP

Responsibilities:

• Further Education strategy and implementation
• Skills strategy and implementation, including Leitch delivery
• The Learning and Skills Council
• Standards and performance in further education and skills, including the Quality Improvement Agency
• Higher Education strategy and implementation, including widening participation and part-time learners
• Employer Engagement in Higher Education
• The Higher Education Funding Council for England
• Student finance policy
• Liaison between further and higher education
• International relations and the Joint International Unit, including the Prime Minister's initiative on overseas HE students
• Liaison with the Department for Children, Schools and Families
• Liaison with the Department for Work and Pensions

Minister of State for Science and Innovation

Ian Pearson MP

Responsibilities:

• Business and Science
• The Research Base
• The Research Councils
• Innovation
• The Technology Strategy Board
• British National Space Centre
• National Weights and Measures Laboratory
• The Design Council
• The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, liaising with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Liaison with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
• Energy Technologies Institute
• Commission for Environmental Markets and Economic Performance

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills

David Lammy MP

Responsibilities:

• The Commission for Employment and Skills
• Sector Skills Councils and employer relations
• The Train to Gain programme
• National Skills Academies
• Apprenticeships
• Offender learning and skills
• Skills competitions, World Skills, and links to the Olympics
• Investors in People UK
• Ufi learndirect
• Industry Training Boards
• Union learning, including union learning representatives and unionlearn
• Leitch implementation plan
• Diversity aspects of skills

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Intellectual Property and Quality

Baroness Morgan

Lords Minister for the whole Department and responsible for:

• The Student Loans Company (and Customer First programme)
• The student loan debt sale
• Endowments and voluntary giving for higher education
• Quality assurance of Higher Education
• UK Intellectual Property Office
• Students as 'customers'
• Scenario building across DIUS
• Departmental efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability

Contact department

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