Brown creates new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

  • The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has been scrapped
  • Lord Mandelson will head the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
  • John Denham, secretary of state for the former DIUS, has become communities secretary
The prime minister has created a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills after scrapping the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) just two years after it was formed.

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