HM Treasury • Enterprise and productivity including
small business taxation and support to the
chancellor of the Exchequer on economic reform • Competition and better regulation • Science, innovation and skills policy, including implementation of the 10-year science and innovation strategy and the
R&D tax credit • Regional economic policy • Urban regeneration and social exclusion including housing, planning and planning gain supplement; • Environmental issues including taxation of transport, international Climate Change issues including global carbon trading and EU ETS, and Energy Issues • Taxation of oil •
Excise duties and
gambling, including excise fraud and law enforcement •
Public-private partnerships including
Private Finance Initiative, and Partnerships UK • Ministerial responsibility for the
Office for National Statistics, the
Royal Mint and Departmental Minister for HM Treasury Group • Support to the
Chief Secretary to the Treasury on
public spending issues including long-term challenges in the run up to the
Comprehensive Spending Review and selected
Cabinet Committees • Assist where necessary on
European issues • Working with the
Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the
Finance Bill Responsibility for procurement policy and the former Office of Government Commerce was transferred to the Cabinet Office in 2011. == List of exchequer secretaries ==