The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) was a United Kingdom government department formed on 19 October 1970. It was replaced with the creation of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills on 28 June 2007.
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12-683: A newly created Department of Energy . On 5 March that year, following a Labour Party victory in the February 1974 general election , the department was split into the Department of Trade , the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection . In 1983 the departments of Trade and Industry were reunited. The Department of Energy was re-merged back into the DTI in 1992, but various media-related functions transferred to
18-468: The Department for International Trade (DIT) was split off. Energy returned in 2017 with the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); BEIS lasted until 2023 when this department was again split and mixed with other responsibilities, into 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). The DTI had
24-582: The Department of National Heritage . Until it was succeeded in June 2007 the DTI continued to set the energy policy of the United Kingdom . After the 2005 general election the DTI was renamed to the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry , but the name reverted to Department of Trade and Industry less than a week later, after widespread derision, including some from the Confederation of British Industry . In 2007, part of DTI merged into
30-431: The new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), while most of it was renamed as the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR); part of that would become the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in 2008. The responsibilities which had gone to DIUS largely returned in 2009 with a remerger to create the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), though in 2016
36-575: Was formed on 19 October 1970 through the merger of the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Technology , creating a new cabinet post of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry . Additionally, the department also took over the Department of Employment 's former responsibilities for monopolies and mergers. However, in January 1974, the department's responsibilities for energy production were transferred to
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