Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for BIS and DCMS and Minister for Intellectual Property

Organisations: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and Intellectual Property Office

Responsibilities

BIS

Responsibilities for BIS include:

  • intellectual property
  • EU/single market
    • single market in goods and services
    • digital single market (Lords lead)
    • Competitiveness Council
  • corporate governance, company law and Companies House
  • postal affairs and Post Offices
  • BIS better regulation
  • BIS corporate (including UKSBS)
  • BIS Lords business

DCMS

  • data protection, including sponsorship of the Information Commissioner’s Office
  • The National Archives (in the process of transferring from the Lord Chancellor)
  • nuisance calls

DCMS Lords business – excluding internet safety and security

Previous holders of this role

  1. Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG

    2015 to 2016