Minister for Agriculture and Food (United Kingdom)

The Minister for Agriculture and Food is a junior position in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the British government. It is currently held by Victoria Prentis, who took the office on 14 February 2020.

Not to be confused with Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Fisheries and Food
Incumbent
Victoria Prentis
since 14 February 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
StyleMinister
NominatorPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
AppointerThe Monarch
on advice of the Prime Minister
Term lengthAt Her Majesty's pleasure
Websitedefra.gov.uk

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • COVID-19 issues related to food for the vulnerable, farming and fisheries Fisheries and Fisheries Bill
  • Farming including Agriculture Bill, Environmental Land Management, the Common Agricultural Policy and pesticides
  • Food including the National Food Strategy, production, growth, skills and apprenticeships
  • Science and innovation, including GMOs and gene editing
  • Better regulation and the department's secondary legislation programme
  • Transition period activity, leading to our future relations with the EU
  • Lead for Rural Payments Agency (RPA), Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), FERA Science, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Marine Management Organisation (MMO)

Ministers for Agriculture and Food
Name Portrait Entered office Left office Political party Notes
The Lord Whitty 12 June 2001 10 May 2005 Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy
The Lord Bach 10 May 2005 5 May 2006 Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Food and Sustainable Energy
The Lord Rooker 6 May 2006 3 October 2008 Labour Minister of State for Sustainable Food, Farming and Animal Health
Jane Kennedy 5 October 2008 8 June 2009 Labour Minister of State for Farming and the Environment
Jim Fitzpatrick 8 June 2009 11 May 2010 Labour Minister of State for Food, Farming and the Environment
Jim Paice 13 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative Minister of State for Agriculture and Food
David Heath 4 September 2012 7 October 2013 Liberal Democrats Minister of State for Agriculture and Food
George Eustice 8 October 2013 28 February 2019 Conservative Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food[1]
Robert Goodwill 5 March 2019 25 July 2019 Conservative Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
George Eustice 25 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Victoria Prentis 14 February 2020 Incumbent Conservative Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Fisheries and Food

References
  1. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (2013–15)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.