The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the department, bringing together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation and energy, including:

• developing and delivering a comprehensive industrial strategy and leading the government’s relationship with business
• ensuring that the country has secure energy supplies that are reliable, affordable and clean
• ensuring the UK remains at the leading edge of science, research and innovation
• tackling climate change.

Responsibilities at BEIS

• Industrial strategy
• science and research, including the creation and governance of UK Research and Innovation
• agri-tech
• space
• innovation
• intellectual property

and at the Department for Education:

universities and higher education reform, higher education student finance, widening participation and social mobility, education exports

Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs)

Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough, New Anglia, South East, Coast to Capital (area from South London to the coast of Brighton), Greater Manchester, Solent, Enterprise M3 (M3 Corridor), Cheshire and Warrington

Responsibilities

• Industrial strategy
• climate change
      -  carbon budgets
      -  international climate change, including International Climate Fund
      -  climate science and innovation
      -  green finance
      -  energy efficiency and heat, including fuel poverty

• industry and enterprise
      -  advanced manufacturing
      -  materials
      -  automotive

Ministerial Growth Champion for Wales

Ministerial Local Growth Champion for the following Local Enterprise Partnerships

Leeds City Region, Humber, York and North Yorkshire, Sheffield City Region, D2N2, Greater Lincolnshire, Leicester and Leicestershire, London, Tees Valley

Responsibilities

• Industrial strategy
• European Union Exit
• EU (Approvals) Bill
• small business and enterprise (including access to finance)
• retail sector
• consumer and competition (including energy retail markets and competition law)
• labour markets
• corporate governance
• local growth
• Insolvency Service
• postal affairs (including Royal Mail)
• EU structural funds

Ministerial Local Growth Champion for the following Local Enterprise Partnerships

Coventry and Warwickshire, Greater Birmingham and Solihull, Black Country, Coventry and Warwickshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Liverpool City Region

Responsibilities

• Industrial strategy
• energy
      -  nuclear
      - oil and gas, including shale gas
      -  low carbon generation
      -  security of supply
      -  electricity and gas wholesale markets and networks
      -  smart meters and smart systems
      -  international energy
      -  energy security, including resilience and emergency planning
  
• industrial policy
      -  aerospace

Ministerial Growth Champion for Northern Ireland

Ministerial Local Growth Champion for the following Local Enterprise Partnerships

Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, Heart of the Southwest, West of England, Cumbria, Northeast of England, The Marches, Hertfordshire

Responsibilities

• Industrial strategy
• Lords lead on all BEIS issues
• industrial policy (with the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry)
      -  technology and emerging sectors
      -  infrastructure/construction
      -  professional services
      -  rail supply chain
      -  defence
      -  maritime
  
• life sciences
• EU on-going business
• better regulation and regulatory reform
• Land Registry
• Ordnance Survey
• Companies House
• Corporate minister

Ministerial Growth Champion for Scotland

Ministerial Local Growth Champion for the following Local Enterprise Partnerships

Oxfordshire, Lancashire, Swindon and Wiltshire, Dorset, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley, Thames Valley Berkshire, Northamptonshire, South East Midlands