Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

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Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
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Department overview
Formed28 June 2007
Preceding agencies
Dissolved5 June 2009
Superseding Department
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Headquarters London, England, UK

The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) was a UK government department created on 28 June 2007 to take over some of the functions of the Department of Education and Skills and of the Department of Trade and Industry. Its head office was based at Kingsgate House, 66-74 Victoria Street, London SW1, which has now been demolished. In June 2009 it was merged into the newly formed Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. [1] It was responsible for adult learning, some parts of further education, higher education, skills, science and innovation.

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DIUS also had responsibility for a number of Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs). These included the Research Councils:

Other NDPBs sponsored by DIUS were:

In addition DIUS was the sponsor department for [NESTA] - the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ().

Only some of DIUS's functions were UK-wide: it oversaw the science budget, provided through the Research Councils, for the UK as a whole. [2] On the other hand, education is a devolved matter and there were corresponding departments in the Northern Ireland Executive, Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly Government. [3]

The Department's strategic objectives were to

A number of education functions of the former DfES (largely those focussed on the 14 - 19 age group) were taken over by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

The only Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills was John Denham MP. In a foreword to the department's White Paper, Innovation Nation, published in March 2008, Denham outlined the importance of innovation as a national commitment:

We want innovation to flourish across every area of the economy, and in particular wherever high value added business can flourish and grow. We must innovate in our public services too. Innovation is as important to the delivery of healthcare and education as it is to industries such as manufacturing, retail and the creative economy. [4]

The first Permanent Secretary, Ian Watmore, moved to a new appointment, leading to the appointment of Sir Jon Shortridge who was in post a matter of nine days before the department was dissolved.

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References

  1. ↑ Number10: Changes to the machinery of Government Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Research councils UK
  3. ↑ House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee - First Report Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Cross-border provision of public services for Wales: further and higher education
  4. ↑ Denham, J., Foreword, in Innovation Nation, published by Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills, March 2008, accessed 20 August 2021, Crown Copyright 2008, text reproduced, acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified

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