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The Secretary of State is responsible for strategy and policy across the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills ( BIS ). The department’s main policy areas are: business law consumer issues employment relations enterprise and business support trade policy higher...
The international community cannot waver in the face of relentless Russian aggression, the Prime Minister will tell NATO today.
Penny Mordaunt was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons between 6 September 2022 and 4 July 2024. Previously she was Minister of State at the Department for International Trade from 16 September 2021 to...
This page provides information on how honours committees are made up and who the current members are.
Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE DL was born in Trinidad in 1949 and came to England as a 10 year old child in 1960 as a Windrush child. She left school at 16 with the aim of becoming Britain’s first ever...
Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP HonFREng was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) on 5 July 2024. He was previously Government Chief Scientific Adviser ( GCSA ) from April 2018 to April 2023. He was also National...
Mary Jo Jacobi was appointed to ACOBA in June 2012. She has held senior roles in the banking and financial services industry at HSBC (1993 to 2000), Lehman Brothers (2000 to 2001) and Drexel Burnham Lambert (1985 to 1990). She...
David is a clinical pharmacologist who has undertaken basic, translational and clinical research over the past 30 years in pursuit of developing safe and effective medicines for the treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He holds the Christison Chair of...
Sir Andrew Witty was the BIS Lead Non-Executive until February 2014. Andrew became CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in May 2008. Before this he held a variety of roles within the company both in the UK and overseas before being appointed...
Peter Fleet has had a successful 30 year international career with the Ford Motor Company. Peter Fleet is a former Group Vice President at Ford Motor Company, most recently serving as President of Ford Asia Pacific, and Chairman and CEO...
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