Government supervision of the industry after 1950 rested in a number of departments. Up to 1964, responsibility for those firms engaged in warship building for the Royal Navy rested in the Admiralty. Thereafter, on the abolition of the Admiralty, responsibility for this sector was transferred to the new Ministry of Defence, where it still remains. On the mercantile side of the industry, overall responsibility lay first with the Ministry of Transport (1939-1964), Board of Trade (to 1966), Ministry of Technology (to 1970), Department of Trade and Industry (to 1974), Department of Industry (to 1983), and Department of Trade and Industry (to 2007). Current responsibility for what is left of the mercantile sector now lies with the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The Shipbuilding Inquiry Committee 1965-1966 was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade, Douglas Jay, and was chaired by Anthony Reay MacKay Geddes of the Dunlop Rubber Company. Its terms of reference were to establish the changes that were necessary in organization, methods of production and other factors affecting costs to make the shipbuilding industry competitive in world markets; to establish the changes in organization and methods of production that would reduce the costs of manufacture of large main engines of ships to the lowest level; and to recommend the actions that should be taken by employers, trade unions and government to bring about these changes. The Shipbuilding Industry Board (SIB) was set up as a result of the Shipbuilding Inquiry Committee 1965-1966. The recommendations of the Committee included a programme of assistance for the industry through grants and loans from public funds for a limited period of five years, to be administered by a small independent board. On 9 August 1966, the government announced its decision to implement the report and to introduce the necessary legislation. Initially, the SIB was set up on a non-statutory basis with three members; in accordance with government wishes, no one with previous experience in shipbuilding was appointed. The Chairman, Sir William Swallow, came from Vauxhall Motors, Anthony Hepper from the Thomas Tilling Group of companies and Joe Gormley from the National Union of Mineworkers.