Business Plan 2012-2015 Department for Business Innovation and Skills 31 May 2012 This plan will be updated annually Contents: Section A: Coalition priorities ................................. 2 Section B: Structural Reform Plan ............................ 4 Section C: Departmental expenditure ................... 22 Section D: Transparency ....................................... 26 A) Coalition priorities 1. Knowledge and Innovation - Promote excellent universities and research and increased business innovation 2. Skills - Build an internationally competitive skills base and promote more opportunities for individuals in realising their potential 3. Enterprise - Boost enterprise and make this the decade of the entrepreneur; and rebalance the economy across sectors and across regions 4. Trade and investment - Stimulate exports and inward investment 5. Markets - Create a positive business environment; and protect and empower consumers 2 Departmental responsibilities This page sets out who in the Department leads on its major responsibilities, including its Coalition priorities. Permanent Secretary: Martin Donnelly Chief Scientific Adviser: Professor John Perkins Knowledge & Business & Skills UK Trade & Markets and Shareholder Strategy, Analysis People, Finance & Innovation Investment Local Growth Executive and Better Communications Commercial Legal Services £11.8bn, £0.04bn £0.4bn, £1.2bn, Regulation and Corporate £0.1bn, £4.3bn, 261 staff (admin only), 586 staff 100 staff £0.02bn, Effectiveness 274 staff 664 staff Director 550 staff Director Chief Executive: 214 staff £0.03bn, Director Director General: General: Chief General: Stephen Director General: 230 staff General: Rachel Sandby- Sir Adrian Executive: Bernadette Kelly Lovegrove Tera Allas Acting Director Howard Orme Thomas Smith Nick Baird General: Joanna Donaldson Structural Reform 1. Knowledge 2. Skills 5. Markets 4. Trade 3. Enterprise 5. Markets Priorities & Innovation 3. Enterprise 4. Trade Higher Further Trade Consumer & Royal Mail & Economics & HR, Finance Other Major Education Education Investment Competition Policy Post Office Analysis Communications, Commercial Responsibilities Science Skills Defence and Corporate & Strategy Internal Audit Labour Market Change and Innovation Business Security Europe & trade Finance Growth Corporate Corporate Sectors Exports policy Practices Better Effectiveness Services Legal services Business Cyber Security Regulation Programmes environment design and Local Growth Delivery BIS, as the Department for Growth, is playing a clear and active role to create sustainable, shared and balanced growth – across the country and between sectors of the economy. BIS and Cabinet Office jointly lead the cross-Government Red Tape Challenge to reduce and reform the stock of regulations on the statute book. BIS is also responsible for bringing forward implementing those changes to the regulations for which the Department has overall responsibility. UK Trade and Investment has two joint host Departments: BIS and the FCO. BIS hosts the Government Office for Science. BIS has a network of partner organisations that are responsible for 73 per cent of our expenditure and are vital to delivering our objectives. 3 B) Structural Reform Plan This section sets out the key actions the department will take to implement its Coalition priorities. An implementation report will be published online, setting out our progress in completing them. Additional actions, including our contributions to cross-cutting Government agendas such as the Growth Review, can be found in Annex A. All commitments and end dates relating to legislation and pre-legislative scrutiny are subject to parliamentary timetables. 1. Knowledge and Innovation - Promote excellent universities and research and increased business innovation Lead: Sir Adrian Smith, Knowledge and Innovation ACTIONS Start End 1.1 Reform higher education to deliver a sustainable, world class system, that is open to people from all backgrounds while also expecting greater funding contributions from those who can afford to pay i. Implement the new National Scholarship Programme to provide awards to students Started Oct 2012 entering higher education in the academic year 2012/13 1.2 Improve information for prospective students on different higher education institutions i. Ensure information is available for each university on key issues for students, including Started Sep 2012 student satisfaction and post-educational outcomes for graduates from different courses and universities 1.3 Ensure that future investment in science and research is focussed on excellence i. Prepare and run a pilot of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions Started Dec 2012 system ii. Develop REF submissions system and open it to responses by institutions Jan 2013 Nov 2013 iii. Conduct assessment of REF submissions Jan 2014 Dec 2014 4 1. Knowledge and Innovation - Promote excellent universities and research and increased business innovation Lead: Sir Adrian Smith, Knowledge and Innovation ACTIONS Start End 1.4 Provide £100 million capital funding for universities to leverage in private or charity co- investment in significant long-term research partnerships i. Announce approach to competitive allocations Jul 2012 Sep 2012 ii. Award first projects Mar 2013 Mar 2013 1.5 Enable greater private investment in research and aid the commercialisation of technology and research through the creation of centres of scientific and technological excellence and stronger links between universities and industries i. Implement operational network of Catapult technology and innovation centres in Cell Started Apr 2013 Therapies, the Connected Digital Economy, Future Cities, High Value Manufacturing, Offshore Renewable Energy, Satellite Applications and Transport Systems ii. Support the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to develop a specification for and establish Started Mar 2013 an Open Data Institute iii. Construction and establishment of the Francis Crick Institute through a unique partnership Started Jan 2016 between the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome Trust and three of London‟s top universities (UCL, ICL, KCL). Its goal will be to understand the biology underlying human health, finding ways to prevent and treat the most significant diseases affecting people today iv. Establish and run the £180m joint MRC/TSB Biomedical Catalyst to provide support to Started Mar 2015 both academically- and commercially-led research and development in a seamless, effective and efficient manner 1.6 Enhance the support that the UK's intellectual property (IP) framework gives to entrepreneurialism, economic growth and social and commercial innovation i. Publish the Government's decisions on changes to copyright legislation proposed by the Started Mar 2015 Hargreaves Review, following consultation 5 1. Knowledge and Innovation - Promote excellent universities and research and increased business innovation Lead: Sir Adrian Smith, Knowledge and Innovation ACTIONS Start End 1.7 Improve the UK’s International Approach to Intellectual Property (IP), to benefit the UK economy, improve the international intellectual property system and facilitate worldwide innovation i. Establish a network of IP Attachés in FCO posts in key economies to promote UK Started Mar 2013 business interests, policy interests and provide a focal point for supporting UK businesses with IP related issues ii. Influence negotiations such that agreement is reached on EU Patent and Patent Court Started Mar 2015 proposals in line with UK priorities 6 2. Skills - Build an internationally competitive skills base and promote more opportunities for individuals in realising their potential Lead: Rachel Sandby-Thomas, Business, Skills and Legal ACTIONS Start End 2.1 Expand and improve the quality of the apprenticeships programme i. Provide funding and a training offer to support the creation of additional 75,000 adult Started Mar 2015 apprenticeship places by 2014-15 relative to the level of spending inherited from the previous Government ii. Fund an additional 40,000 adult apprenticeship places focused on the young unemployed Started Mar 2015 and an additional 10,000 advanced and higher apprenticeship places iii. Ensure all new apprenticeships require apprentices who have not reached L2 in English Started Sep 2012 and maths to progress towards it, working with DfE iv. Roll-out the new employer incentives scheme for small employers taking on new young Started Apr 2013 apprentices, working with DfE v. Identify and implement ways to make apprenticeships more accessible to SMEs (including Started Apr 2013 reducing bureaucracy and speedier recruitment processes), working with DfE 2.2 Introduce a new system of loans for further education students, in parallel with reforms to funding of higher education, with the expectation that those adults who benefit most from training will contribute to the costs where they can afford to do so i. Lay Regulations to allow the introduction of Further Education (FE) loans Jul 2012 Jul 2012 ii. Learners begin courses funded using FE loans Sep 2013 Sep 2013 2.3 Implement a new round of the Growth and Innovation Fund for employer co-funded projects that invest in training and skills development i. Implement the new round of Growth and Innovation Funding Started Jul 2012 2.4 Reform English and Maths Basic Skills i. Pilot with providers how skills gain in English and Maths can be assessed and measured Sep 2012 Sep 2013 as the basis for funding in order to incentivise