The former chief secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms
has moved to the newly formedDepartment for
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)to take up the role.
Timm's ministerial boss will be BERR head John Hutton.
Timms was minister for e-commerce and competitiveness at the
Department of Trade and Industry between May 2002 and June
2003.
Prior to moving into public office, Timms had worked for around
15 years in the computing and telecoms industries, including stints
at Logica and analyst Ovum.
