Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

BEIS existed until 2023 when it was split to form the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Responsibility for national security and investment policy has gone to the Cabinet Office.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Simon Hart MP
  Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
• Marcus Jones MP
  Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip)
• Rebecca Harris MP
  Comptroller of HM Household (Government Whip)
• Jo Churchill MP
  Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip)
• Amanda Solloway MP
  Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
• Steve Double MP
  Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
• Scott Mann MP
  Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
• The Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson MP
  Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
• Stuart Anderson MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Joy Morrissey MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Jacob Young MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Robert Largan MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Julie Marson MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Fay Jones MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• Mike Wood MP
  Assistant Government Whip
• The Rt Hon Baroness Williams of Trafford
  Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (Lords Chief Whip)
• Earl of Courtown
  Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (Lords Deputy Chief Whip)
• Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
  Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip)
• Lord Davies of Gower
  Lord in Waiting
• Lord Harlech
  Lord in Waiting
• Lord Evans of Rainow
  Lord in Waiting (Government Whip)
• Lord Caine
  Lord in Waiting

Petitions linked to this department

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• Make it a legal requirement for Hospitality front of house to have a DBS check
  Open from Wednesday 21st April 2021 to Thursday 21st October 2021
  12 signatures

• Require evidence before Companies House can publish the departure of a Director
  Open from Tuesday 20th April 2021 to Wednesday 20th October 2021
  69 signatures

• Introduce a licensing scheme for the sale of all knives and bladed articles.
  Open from Tuesday 20th April 2021 to Wednesday 20th October 2021
  3,805 signatures

• Ban the use of unpaid trial shifts
  Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
  90 signatures

• Full pay for employees forced to isolate because of Covid 19
  Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
  27 signatures

• Amend Employment law to protect employees free speech outside of the workplace
  Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
  973 signatures

• Regulate third-party food delivery providers
  Open from Thursday 15th April 2021 to Friday 15th October 2021
  826 signatures

• Help end fuel poverty – make it illegal to charge more for prepaid energy
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  230 signatures

• Utility service providers must provide an email address for customer services.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  27 signatures

• Require a license to order Nitrous Oxide canisters.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  183 signatures

• Move May Bank Holiday(s) to June or July after Lockdown restrictions are lifted.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  11 signatures

• Age Restrict all blades
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  16 signatures

• Provide compensation for flooding caused by former mines
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  3,416 signatures

• Ban Animal Testing - Fund, accept & promote alternatives to animal testing
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  235,886 signatures

• Extend deadline for applying for £10k Covid Grants from 31.03.21 till 30.04.21
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  9 signatures

• Require adverts to state when person's features have been enhanced or distorted
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  1,682 signatures

• Stop large public events being held until everyone is offered a COVID-19 vaccine
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  20 signatures

• Reduce maximum weekly working hours to 30, increase minimum wage to £15 per hour
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  90 signatures

• Make Eid a national holiday for all citizens.
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  341 signatures

• Ban the sale of disposable face masks for domestic use
  Open from Friday 9th April 2021 to Saturday 9th October 2021
  24 signatures

• Ban The Sale Of Disposable Barbecues.
  Open from Friday 9th April 2021 to Saturday 9th October 2021
  345 signatures

• Ban all sales of iceberg and glacial water in the UK.
  Open from Thursday 8th April 2021 to Friday 8th October 2021
  21 signatures

• Ban charges increasing during fixed-term contracts for utilities and media
  Open from Tuesday 6th April 2021 to Wednesday 6th October 2021
  33 signatures

• Ensure registered electricians can pull DNO fuses for work
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  44 signatures

• Provide paid miscarriage leave to women who lose a pregnancy before 24 weeks.
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  1,285 signatures

• Evenly spread the environmental charges applied to domestic gas and electricity.
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  141 signatures

• Require lenders to publish details of acceptance/rejection criteria
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  28 signatures

• Fund parental leave for self-employed parents equivalent to that for employees
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  101 signatures

• Mandatory printing of car registration numbers on all Drive Thru packaging.
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  60,050 signatures

• Introduce new requirements for pubs/bars/clubs to prevent Sexual Harassment
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  201 signatures

• Approve the Whitehaven Coal Mine in Cumbria
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  1,629 signatures

• Ban the sale of plastic Tampon applicators
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  46 signatures

• Set a target for 100% renewable energy by 2022
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  32 signatures

• Add an extra hour to British Summer Time this year.
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  21 signatures

• Ban cold calling
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  35 signatures

• Legislate to limit interest rates for personal loans
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  10 signatures

• Make mental health training mandatory in all workplaces
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  60 signatures

• Support commercial tenants with a rent fund and levy on landlords
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  4,668 signatures

• Require all workplaces to have at least one Mental Health First Aider
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  205 signatures

• Allow wedding venues that can safely operate to open 12/04/21 for 15 guests
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  25 signatures

• June 21st National Holiday, Every Year.
  Open from Thursday 25th March 2021 to Saturday 25th September 2021
  11 signatures

• Make Chinese New Year, Diwali, EID public holidays
  Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
  52 signatures

• Ban redundancies while staff are on furlough
  Open from Friday 19th March 2021 to Sunday 19th September 2021
  61 signatures

• Require UK-based manufacturers to run on a closed-loop water cycle
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  63 signatures

• Outlaw Smartphones for all under 16's.
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  27 signatures

• Disability changing facilities and decent access in all venues to be law.
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  108 signatures

• Make the catering at the Glasgow 2021 UN Climate Change Conference plant-based
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  1,743 signatures

• 8th of March “International Women’s Day” to become a bank holiday
  Open from Monday 15th March 2021 to Wednesday 15th September 2021
  40 signatures

• Make minimum wages for 17 and 18 year old school leavers equal
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  19 signatures

• Prohibit gambling unless individuals are registered members of a gambling shop
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  110 signatures

• Ban the use of bots for all online purchase
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  48 signatures

• Increase the level of Additional Restrictions Grants for eligible businesses
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  65 signatures

• Extend the mortgage guarantee scheme to cover 100% mortgages
  Open from Tuesday 9th March 2021 to Thursday 9th September 2021
  23 signatures

• Expand Bounce Back Loan eligibility to businesses established since March 2020
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  7 signatures

• Fund a Lunar colony.
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  22 signatures

• Make June 22nd (or the day after Nightclubs reopen) a bank holiday
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  13 signatures

• Ban fire and rehire employment tactics
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  15,494 signatures

• Introduce statutory paid bereavement leave for loss of family or close friends
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  19 signatures

• New Bank Holiday last Monday of October to celebrate multi-cultural Britain
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  25 signatures

• Ban the advertising of products which are not plant-based and cruelty-free
  Open from Thursday 4th March 2021 to Saturday 4th September 2021
  61 signatures

• Require supermarkets to have defibrillators on site
  Open from Thursday 4th March 2021 to Saturday 4th September 2021
  64 signatures

• Create a UK Wellbeing and Future Generations Act
  Open from Wednesday 3rd March 2021 to Friday 3rd September 2021
  14 signatures

• Ban the manufacture of all products containing plastic in the UK
  Open from Tuesday 2nd March 2021 to Thursday 2nd September 2021
  57 signatures

• Regulate the naming of cosmetic and beauty products based on their ingredients
  Open from Monday 1st March 2021 to Wednesday 1st September 2021
  216 signatures

• Give family and friends a right to compassionate leave for attending a funeral
  Open from Monday 1st March 2021 to Wednesday 1st September 2021
  12 signatures

• Prohibit employers from requiring employees to have a Covid-19 vaccine
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  19,382 signatures

• Toughen penalties for restaurants failing to allow delivery couriers toilet use
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  85 signatures

• Require companies to report on Environment, Social and Governance factors
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  18 signatures

• Subsidise household energy costs, during Stay at Home restrictions
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  46 signatures

• Introduce a legal right for employees to work remotely
  Open from Friday 19th February 2021 to Thursday 19th August 2021
  398 signatures

• Introduce statutory regulation of rent increases for commercial properties
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  16 signatures

• Set minimum working temperature requirements in law for all workplaces
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  16 signatures

• Require paper bags be available at all supermarket and Grocery shop.
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  35 signatures

• Increase the amount of maternity and paternity paid leave
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  60 signatures

• Abolish zero hours contracts
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2021 to Tuesday 17th August 2021
  55 signatures

• Revoke the decision to give development consent to Hornsea Project Three
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  12 signatures

• Get the UK's carbon emissions to net-zero by 2040.
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  68 signatures

• Make every 29 February a "leap year day" Bank Holiday
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  15 signatures

• All worker's rights to be enforceable after 6 months, not 2 years.
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  32 signatures

• Enact right to repair as consumer law.
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  90 signatures

• Extend statutory bereavement leave to pregnancy loss before 24 weeks
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  37,330 signatures

• Start British Summer Time a month earlier this year, on 28th February, 2021
  Open from Friday 12th February 2021 to Thursday 12th August 2021
  6 signatures

• Make unsolicited postal marketing illegal.
  Open from Friday 12th February 2021 to Thursday 12th August 2021
  28 signatures

• Raise the Universal Credit allowance for over 18s to match people aged 25 & over
  Open from Thursday 11th February 2021 to Wednesday 11th August 2021
  17 signatures

• Ban the sale of cheap polystyrene bodyboards
  Open from Thursday 11th February 2021 to Wednesday 11th August 2021
  6,693 signatures

• Enhance maternity leave to be at full pay for 6 months
  Open from Thursday 11th February 2021 to Wednesday 11th August 2021
  6,802 signatures

• Grant Legal Guardians rights to paid parental leave
  Open from Wednesday 10th February 2021 to Tuesday 10th August 2021
  415 signatures

• Delay ban on coal and increase funding for transition for those reliant on coal
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  3,990 signatures

• Compulsory to display country of manufacture on all goods at point of sale
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  2,904 signatures

• Create a new permanent public holiday on the nearest Monday to Midsummers Day
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  17 signatures

• Change the date that the clocks go forward to Saturday 13th February 2021
  Open from Monday 8th February 2021 to Sunday 8th August 2021
  8 signatures

• Introduce mandatory registration of white goods to improve product recalls
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  20 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement to list an expected salary on job advertisements.
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  50 signatures

• Make March 23rd an annual National COVID Memorial day from 2022
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  991 signatures

• Regulate the beauty industry
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  386 signatures

• Require shops to regularly sanitise till areas and card readers
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  16 signatures

• Give parents rights to be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  Open from Tuesday 2nd February 2021 to Monday 2nd August 2021
  42 signatures

• Require petrol stations to have a pay at pump option
  Open from Tuesday 2nd February 2021 to Monday 2nd August 2021
  15 signatures

• Put a price cap on electric car charging
  Open from Tuesday 2nd February 2021 to Monday 2nd August 2021
  21 signatures

• Extend all consumer rights law to private sellers purporting to be businesses
  Open from Monday 1st February 2021 to Sunday 1st August 2021
  89 signatures

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