Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Background

Defra's website states its three main objectives as: 'Secure a healthy natural environment for us all and deal with environmental risks; promote a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient economy; ensure a thriving farming sector and a sustainable, healthy and secure food supply'.[1]

People

Ministers

  • Elizabeth Truss MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since 2014
  • George Eustice MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for farming, food and marine environment since 2014
  • Rory Stewart MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary since 2015

Previous Ministers

  • Owen Paterson MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Lord de Mauley - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for natural environment and science
  • Dan Rogerson MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for water, forestry, rural affairs and resource management 2013-2015

Special advisers

Management

Prior to 2015

Prior to May 2010

Management Board

Chief Scientific Adviser

Press and comms staff

Department organogram

Accessible at: http://reference.data.gov.uk/gov-structure/organogram/?dept=defra&post=1 Shows grade and pay of key staff.

Consultancies

In 2012-13 law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was ranked second out of the top 10 consultancies used by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which paid FBD £587,922 in 2012-13. [4]

Contact details, Resources, Notes

Contact

  • Address: Defra, Customer Contact Unit, Eastbury House, 30 - 34 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TL
  • Contact Defra's Ministers: Defra, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR,
  • Phone: 08459 33 55 77
  • Fax: Customer Contact Unit 020 7238 2188
  • Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/

External Resources

Notes

  1. The Defra website What do we do - our objectives in detail, Defra, 19 December 2008, accessed 11th February 2009
  2. Defra Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Ian Boyd, DEFRA, acc 27 May 2014
  3. Oliver Claydon, LinkedIn profile, accessed 28 October 2014
  4. Consultants, Written Answers, Commons Debates, Hansard, undated, Chris Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by his Department in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid. [195574]