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<p><del class="ministerial">Yes, employees are represented on the Department’s board.
The Permanent Secretary is a standing member of the Departmental Board, and meets
with the Departmental Trade Unions as staff representatives.</del></p><p> </p><p><del
class="ministerial">There are several other ways in which the views of employees of
the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are currently already
taken into account by the Departmental Board and its supporting committees.</del></p><p>
</p><p><del class="ministerial">The Board regularly discusses staff related matters,
such as the Civil Service People Survey results which reflect the views of the Department’s
employees, including views on the transition programme to create a new Department.</del></p><p>
</p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department’s governance structure includes a People
and Operations Committee, chaired by the Directors General responsible for People,
Corporate Services and the transition programme. This Committee has standing representation
from the HR Director and staff diversity networks as full members. Recommendations
from the Committee are routinely taken to the Department’s Executive Committee for
endorsement and approval.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The composition
of the Departmental Board is determined by Cabinet Office and HMT’s <em>Corporate
Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good practice</em> (2011). Cabinet
Office and HMT are currently in the process of refreshing this guidance to reflect
current best practice.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Board also
has external Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) as standing members. NEBMs provide
external challenge and scrutiny and offer wider stakeholder views to the Board.</del></p><p>
</p><p><ins class="ministerial">A New Productivity Fund (NPIF) announced in the Autumn
Statement will provide for £23 billion of spending between 2017-18 and 2021-22.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Through the NPIF the government
will fund the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The fund will cover a broad range
of technologies, to be decided by an evidence-based process. It will be delivered
by Innovate UK and the Research Councils, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) when
it is established.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We
will begin to identify different challenge areas between now and the Budget in 2017.
More detail on funding breakdown and proposals will be set out in due course.</ins></p><p>
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