
Previously led by secretary of state Sajid Javid, new prime minster Theresa May has decided to split up the responsibilities of the department and allocate them to different ones.
The budget for BIS had been reduced in recent years, with a 17 per cent cut announced during former chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement address on 25 November 2015. This took the headline BIS budget, resource and capital, decline from £16.6bn to £13.2bn in 2019-20.The world is struggling to come to grips with Boris Johnson being made foreign secretary
Here is Theresa May’s new cabinet:- Chancellor of the Exchequer – Philip Hammond
- Foreign secretary – Boris Johnson
- Home secretary – Amber Rudd
- Defence secretary – Michael Fallon
- Health secretary – Jeremy Hunt
- Secretary of state for exiting the EU – David Davis
- Justice secretary – Liz Truss
- Education secretary – Justine Greening
- Secretary of state for international trade – Liam Fox
- Culture secretary – Karen Bradley
- Environment secretary – Andrea Leadsom
- Transport secretary – Chris Grayling
- International development secretary – Priti Patel
- Work and pensions secretary – Damian Green
- Business and energy secretary – Greg Clark
- Northern Ireland secretary – James Brokenshire
- Welsh secretary – Alun Cairns
- Communities secretary – Sajid Javid
- Chief whip – Gavin Williamson
- Conservative party chairman – Patrick McLoughlin
- Leader of the House of Lords – Baroness Evans
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