Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Incumbent: Hilary Benn MP Took office: 28 June 2007
Style:	The Right Honourable
Appointed by:	Gordon Brown as Prime Minister
First:	Margaret Beckett
Formation:	(8 June 2001)

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The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK cabinet-level position in charge of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the successor to the positions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

[edit] Responsibilities

The Secretary of State has three main responsibilities at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to:

• bear overall responsibility for all Departmental issues.
• represent the UK at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council and at the EU Environment Council.
• lobby for the UK in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change.

[edit] Previous Secretaries of State

Name	Portrait	Took Office	Left Office	Party		Prime Minister
Margaret Beckett		8 June 2001	5 May 2006		Labour	Tony Blair
David Miliband		5 May 2006	27 June 2007		Labour
Hilary Benn		28 June 2007	present		Labour	Gordon Brown

[edit] See also

• List of Secretaries of state for the environment; Secretaries of state for the environment, transport and the regions

v • d • e Secretaries of State for Environment of the United Kingdom Secretaries of State for Environment Peter Walker · Geoffrey Rippon · Anthony Crosland · Peter Shore · Michael Heseltine · Tom King · Patrick Jenkin · Kenneth Baker · Nicholas Ridley · Chris Patten · Michael Heseltine · Michael Howard · John Gummer Secretaries of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions John Prescott Secretaries of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Margaret Beckett · David Miliband · Hilary Benn

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