Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Contents
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
- Dan Rogerson MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for water, forestry, rural affairs and resource management
- Lord de Mauley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for natural environment and science
- George Eustice MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for farming, food and marine environment
Previous Ministers
- Owen Paterson MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Management
- Michael Seals MBE, Chairman, Animal Health and Welfare Board
- Bronwyn Hill CBE, Permanent Secretary
- Professor Ian Boyd, Defra Chief Scientific Adviser
- Iain Ferguson, Non-executive board member
- Martin Nesbit, Director General, Strategy, Evidence and Customers
- Ian Trenholm, Director General, Chief Operating Officer
- Paul Rew, Non-executive board member
- Peter Unwin, Director General, Policy Delivery Group
- Tom Taylor, Finance Director
- Sir Tony Hawkhead CBE, Non-executive board member
Prior to May 2010
- The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, appointed 28th June 2007
- Jane Kennedy Minister of State
- Lord Hunt Minister of State
- Huw Irranca-Davies MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Management Board
- Helen Ghosh Permanent Secretary, Chair of Management Board
- Bill Stow Director General, Strategy and Evidence Group
- Katrina Williams Director General, Food and Farming Group
- Gill Aitken Solicitor and Director General, Legal Services
- Peter Unwin Director General, Natural Environment Group
- Ian Watt Director General, Finance and Commercial
- Professor Robert Watson Chief Scientific Adviser
Chief Scientific Adviser
- Professor Ian Boyd [2]
- Sir Bob Watson FRS
Press and comms staff
- Oliver Claydon, press officer for Defra, previously worked for PR and lobbying firm Bell Pottinger Private and as a communications secondee to top legal firm Berwin Leighton Paisner [3]
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
- ↑ The Defra website What do we do - our objectives in detail, Defra, 19 December 2008, accessed 11th February 2009
- ↑ Defra Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Ian Boyd, DEFRA, acc 27 May 2014
- ↑ Oliver Claydon, LinkedIn profile, accessed 28 October 2014
- ↑ 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]
