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Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The secretary of state for business, innovation, science and trade, also referred to as the business secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Secretary, State and Business can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.