The job of scrutinizing the work of the United Kingdom’s Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on matters including energy and climate change will fall to the House of Commons’ newly named Select Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee, the panel announced on Twitter Friday.
The BEIS was formed following the U.K.’s vote in June to leave the European Union. After the “Brexit,” Prime Minister David Cameron stepped down and Theresa May took over. May quickly restructured her Cabinet, eliminating the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and folding it into the new BEIS.
DECC had been overseen by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, which will be disbanded Oct. 17. The energy and climate change activities will be folded into the House of Commons Select Committee on Business, Innovation, and Skills, which will be renamed the House of Commons Select Committee on Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
