Business Plan
Our Business Plan sets out the Government’s priorities and key deliverables.
As part of the Government’s transparency drive, all departments are required to publish Business Plans. They set out in unprecedented detail the public sector reforms that the Government is undertaking, helping the public to hold Government to account.
Explore BIS's Business Plan on the Number 10 website, find achievements against specific objectives. Or download the full document (PDF, 507 Kb) in pdf format.
We publish monthly updates on our performance against the Structural Reform Plan, the part of the Business Plan which sets out in detail the actions that the Department will take to deliver against its priorities. View the monthly implementation updates.
What’s in the Business Plan?
Our Business Plan has five sections: vision, coalition priorities, Structural Reform Plan, departmental expenditure and transparency.
In his introductory vision, the Secretary of State, Vince Cable, says: “BIS is the department for growth. We have a key role to play in delivering the Coalition’s commitment to building a new and more responsible economic model, as well as delivering fairness and the objectives of the big society.”
The nine coalition priorities are based around four themes:
- Secure an economy that is more dynamic and more balanced between public and private sectors and between regions
- Safeguard the UK's long-term growth by promoting skills and by turning knowledge to commercial use
- Stimulate enterprise and trade to drive the rebalancing and private sector growth we want to see
- Remove Government as an obstacle to growth while ensuring responsible corporate behaviour.
The Structural Reform Plan sets out in detail the actions that the Department will take to deliver against its priorities.
Departmental expenditure shows the spending limits agreed in the Spending Review and how spending is allocated to different areas. It includes common areas of spend to help the public compare across Government departments.
Transparency is a key theme of the Coalition Government, and the Business Plan includes a significant section on it, covering our overall information strategy together with input indicators and impact indicators.
Performance indicator results will be published in a standard Business Plan Quarterly Data Summary. Publication of this quarterly report will begin in July 2011.
You can view all our transparency information we have released in the Transparency section of the website.
