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Entry	Type	First source	Confidence	ID

DSIT — superseded

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is being broken up after the July 2026 machinery of government changes. GOV.UK: "It's being replaced by the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Cabinet Office." It is not counted as a department here. See who moved where (Part 2.1) →

Also on other pages

4 link cardsThese items were researched on this page but their full entry lives on another page, so they are counted once, there.

GOV-BIST-003 Minister for Artificial Intelligence (joint BIST / Cabinet Office) → Minister for Artificial Intelligence (joint Cabinet Office / BIST portfolio) full entry on the Cabinet Office page
GOV-BIST-014 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) — sponsorship → UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) full entry on the UKRI page
GOV-BIST-015 Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) — sponsorship → Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) full entry on the ARIA page
GOV-BIST-020 National Physical Laboratory — Centre for AI Measurement → National Physical Laboratory (NPL) — AI metrology and the Hub full entry on the AI Standards Hub page

Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameDepartment for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

short labelBIST

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-b

headquartersOld Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, SW1A 2DY (FOI contact address on the organisation page), lat 51.506461, lng -0.127507 (sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-science-and-trade ; https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1A2DY)

parent (as of 2026-10-28)none (ministerial department; Secretary of State Jonathan Reynolds MP)

previous parent / parent changedRenamed from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in the machinery-of-government changes announced 22 July 2026; absorbed DSIT's science, research, innovation and AI-economy functions (AI Growth Zones, AI Research Resource, Sovereign AI, AI for science, robotics, semiconductors, data infrastructure) while AI strategy, public-sector AI adoption and the AI Security Institute went to the Cabinet Office. Secretary of State appointed 20 July 2026.

blurbThe department that sponsors UK science and research funding, runs the AI Growth Zones, the AI Research Resource and the Sovereign AI fund, attracts inward investment, and sets employment policy on AI and the workforce.

website still shows old brandingno on the department page (it reads "Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade"); yes on several child pages: the Regulatory Innovation Office page says "Part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology"; the Government Office for Technology Transfer page says it "is part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology"; the Met Office page says it is "sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology"; the British Business Bank page says it "works with the Department for Business and Trade"; the AI Growth Zones collection, the Manchester Prize page and the Delivering AI Growth Zones paper still show "From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology"; the ATRS register still labels the department "Department for Business and Trade". Many publications now carry both "Department for Business and Trade" and "Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade" as publishers.

Gaps the research left open

17Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

WebFetch hourly allowance ran out after about 95 fetches; the last items not reached were a secondary press source for the July 2026 machinery-of-government change (Bloomberg Law article found by search but not opened) and the 20 October 2026 "10,000 young people" tech placements release (listed from the search API only). Ten WebSearch calls were allotted; four were used.
British Business Bank involvement in Sovereign AI: not confirmed on any page opened (the April 2026 launch speech and press release, and the BBB organisation page, do not mention it). The MoG fact sheet gives BIST "stronger links to the British Business Bank". Sovereign AI's managing partner ("to be announced very soon" in April 2026) was not found.
Sovereign AI's current departmental home: releases since July 2026 are co-published by the Cabinet Office and BIST, and the Minister for AI's BIST portfolio lists "Sovereign AI". Recorded under BIST on that basis.
AI Growth Zone Delivery Unit: the November 2025 paper places it "within DSIT"; no page states where it sits after July 2026. Recorded under BIST because the AI Minister's BIST portfolio includes "AI Growth Zones"; post-July Growth Zone releases are co-published with the Cabinet Office.
AI Assurance Innovation Fund and Manchester Prize: GOV.UK pages still show DSIT; no page opened confirms their owner after July 2026. Recorded here with the owner marked unconfirmed. No Round 3 Manchester Prize found.
Investment Security Unit organisation page (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/investment-security-unit) returned a client error. The NSI collection page (updated 12 Oct 2026) still says the ISU is within the Cabinet Office, contradicting the fact sheet. The 17 mandatory areas list (which includes AI) was not opened, and the 2025-26 annual report's AI-area figures were not found in the portion read.
Dr Dave Smith: BIST page lists him as National Technology Adviser; his person page lists the role under "Previous roles in government" as 2023 to 2026. Unresolved.
The Regulatory Innovation Office, GOTT, Met Office and British Business Bank organisation pages still show DSIT/DBT as parent; BIST parentage is taken from the BIST organisation page's high-profile groups list, the organisations index and the ministers' public-body lists.
UK Council for Internet Safety: listed as a BIST high-profile group; not opened; no AI relevance established.
Redbox@DBT evaluation report findings (53-page PDF), the Industrial Strategy quarterly update (PDF), the Digital and Technologies Sector Plan 2025 (PDF) and the Delivering AI Growth Zones PDF were not read; figures come from HTML pages only.
Culham AI Growth Zone: no site-specific public money, private investment or MW figure found on GOV.UK pages opened. North Wales: no private investment figure at designation. Blackstone's Blyth campus and the Cobalt Park Stargate site are both described as the North East zone; the release does not say whether they are one zone.
Compute commitment: the AIRR page says an extra £1bn; the PM's foreword to the One Year On update says £2bn. Both recorded; not reconciled.
Budget date: the 24 October 2026 release says "next week" without a date.
The ATRS filtered URL rendered the full register rather than the DBT filter; DBT records were identified by reading all four pages of the register. UKEF's PRISM and the IPO and Met Office records are tagged DSIT on the register, not BIST.
Chris McDonald's role page lists "Innovate UK" and "Copyright Tribunal" among bodies overseen; the Innovate UK organisation page was not opened.
Keep Britain Working Review (final report 31 March 2026) and SME Digital Adoption Taskforce 2026 update appear in BIST's AI search results but were not opened; no AI content verified.
No page opened tried to direct the researcher; no injection noted.

Closed by Supplement 1 (1)

IPO "Concept House … NP10 8QQ" without coordinates — S1b GOV-BIST-016, 057

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