The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was a United Kingdom government department. The department was created on 28 June 2007 on the disbanding of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and was itself disbanded on 6 June 2009 on the creation of the

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. BERR had a wide range of responsibilities. The main areas covered were essentially those previously covered by the DTI: company law, trade, energy, business growth, employment law, regional economic development and consumer law. The principal machinery of government changes affecting the department on creation were the removal of the Office of Science and Innovation to the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the arrival of the Better Regulation Executive from the

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. Subsequently, in October 2008, responsibility for

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was removed to the new

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. It merged with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the June 2009 reshuffle to become the

. BERR was responsible for the implementation of the

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and for promoting

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in the UK. In this context, it supported initiatives such as: * Make Your Mark,Welcome to Make Your Mark Entrepreneurs
Makeyourmark.org.uk. Retrieved on 2014-04-19. the UK's national campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be more enterprising. * Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world's first global celebration and promotion of the entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people.

Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (2007–2009)

References

External links

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Archived Website

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