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secretary, state, environment, food, rural, affairs, secretary, state, environment, food, rural, affairs, also, referred, environment, secretary, secretary, state, government, united, kingdom, with, overall, responsibility, department, environment, food, rural. The secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs also referred to as the environment secretary is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom with overall responsibility for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Defra The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom United Kingdom Secretary of Statefor Environment Food and Rural AffairsRoyal Arms of His Majesty s GovernmentIncumbentSteve Barclaysince 13 November 2023Department for Environment Food and Rural AffairsStyleEnvironment Secretary informal The Right Honourable within the UK and Commonwealth TypeMinister of the CrownStatusSecretary of StateMember ofCabinetPrivy CouncilReports toThe Prime MinisterSeatWestminsterNominatorThe Prime MinisterAppointerThe Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister Term lengthAt His Majesty s pleasureFormation15 October 1970 as Secretary of State for the Environment 8 June 2001 as Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs First holderPeter Walker as Secretary of State for the Environment Salary 159 038 per annum 2022 1 including 86 584 MP salary 2 Websiteww2 wbr defra wbr gov wbr ukThe office holder works alongside the other Defra ministers The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs Contents 1 Responsibilities 2 List of environment secretaries 2 1 Secretaries of state for the environment 1970 1997 2 2 Secretaries of state for the environment transport and the regions 1997 2001 2 3 Secretaries of state for environment food and rural affairs 2001 present 3 ReferencesResponsibilities editThe secretary of state has two main responsibilities at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs to bear overall responsibility for all departmental issues lobby for the United Kingdom in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change List of environment secretaries editSecretaries of state for the environment 1970 1997 editSecretary of State 3 Term of office Party Ministry nbsp Peter WalkerMP for Worcester 15 October 1970 5 November 1972 Conservative Heath nbsp Geoffrey RipponMP for Hexham 5 November 1972 4 March 1974 Conservative nbsp Anthony CroslandMP for Great Grimsby 5 March 1974 8 April 1976 Labour Wilson III amp IV nbsp Peter ShoreMP for Stepney and Poplar 8 April 1976 4 May 1979 Labour Callaghan nbsp Michael HeseltineMP for Henley 5 May 1979 6 January 1983 Conservative Thatcher I nbsp Tom KingMP for Bridgwater 6 January 1983 11 June 1983 Conservative nbsp Patrick JenkinMP for Wanstead and Woodford 11 June 1983 2 September 1985 Conservative Thatcher II nbsp Kenneth BakerMP for Mole Valley 2 September 1985 21 May 1986 Conservative nbsp Nicholas RidleyMP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury 21 May 1986 24 July 1989 ConservativeThatcher III nbsp Chris PattenMP for Bath 24 July 1989 28 November 1990 Conservative nbsp Michael HeseltineMP for Henley 28 November 1990 11 April 1992 Conservative Major I nbsp Michael HowardMP for Folkestone and Hythe 11 April 1992 27 May 1993 Conservative Major II nbsp John GummerMP for Suffolk Coastal 27 May 1993 2 May 1997 ConservativeSecretaries of state for the environment transport and the regions 1997 2001 edit nbsp John Prescott 4 MP for Kingston upon Hull East 2 May 1997 8 June 2001 Labour Blair ISecretaries of state for environment food and rural affairs 2001 present edit nbsp Margaret Beckett 5 MP for Derby South 8 June 2001 5 May 2006 Labour Blair IIBlair III nbsp David Miliband 6 MP for South Shields 5 May 2006 28 June 2007 Labour nbsp Hilary Benn 7 MP for Leeds Central 28 June 2007 11 May 2010 Labour Brown nbsp Caroline Spelman 8 MP for Meriden 12 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative Cameron Clegg Con L D nbsp Owen Paterson 9 MP for North Shropshire 4 September 2012 14 July 2014 Conservative nbsp Liz Truss 10 MP for South West Norfolk 15 July 2014 14 July 2016 Conservative Cameron II nbsp Andrea Leadsom 11 MP for South Northamptonshire 14 July 2016 11 June 2017 Conservative May I nbsp Michael Gove 12 MP for Surrey Heath 11 June 2017 24 July 2019 Conservative May II nbsp Theresa Villiers 13 MP for Chipping Barnet 24 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative Johnson I Johnson II nbsp George EusticeMP for Camborne and Redruth 13 February 2020 6 September 2022 Conservative nbsp Ranil JayawardenaMP for North East Hampshire 6 September 2022 25 October 2022 Conservative Truss nbsp Therese CoffeyMP for Suffolk Coastal 25 October 2022 13 November 2023 Conservative Sunak nbsp Steve BarclayMP for North East Cambridgeshire 13 November 2023 Incumbent ConservativeReferences edit Salaries of Members of His Majesty s Government Financial Year 2022 23 PDF 15 December 2022 Pay and expenses for MPs parliament uk Retrieved 15 December 2022 Secretary of State for Environment Parliamentary Debates Hansard Retrieved 23 October 2017 Lord Prescott UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon David Miliband UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Dame Caroline Spelman MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Rt Hon Michael Gove MP UK Parliament Retrieved 23 October 2017 Theresa Villiers replaces Gove as Defra secretary Farmers Weekly 25 July 2019 Retrieved 25 July 2019 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs amp oldid 1190784087, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,