The Government has announced a department merger that will create the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It will be created by the merging of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). The new department is designed to advocate the needs of UK small businesses but some employment experts have said that the re-organisation is ill-timed during the recession. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) told Personnel Today magazine that it is "surely not the time to be embarking on yet another reorganisation of the civil service".