Sentences with phrase «rural affairs secretary»

[20][21] This was a shadow - ministerial post; the Shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary was Peter Ainsworth.

Rachael Maskell quit as shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary, telling the Guardian: «I said I would first of all serve my constituents and that is the most important thing for me.»

«With climate change gone from Hilary Benn's [environment, food and rural affairs secretary] in - tray, his department must spend more time banging heads together across Whitehall to really make thorough «rural proofing» of government policy a reality,» he said.

Shadow Foreign Secretary - Emily Thornberry Shadow Health Secretary — Diane Abbott Shadow Education Secretary — Pat Glass Shadow Transport Secretary — Andy McDonald Shadow Defence Secretary — Clive Lewis Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury — Rebecca Long - Bailey Shadow International Development Secretary — Kate Osamor Shadow Environment Food and Rural Affairs Secretary — Rachel Maskell Shadow Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs — Cat Smith Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary — Dave Anderson

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

Here's another one: Theresa Villiers going to Northern Ireland displaces Owen Paterson, who is now going to be the next environment, food and rural affairs secretary.

Nick Herbert, former shadow justice secretary, becomes shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary.

According to Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead, Scotland's dairy sector could reap the benefits if the EU extends country of origin labelling to dairy products.

Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead has announced a 25 point plan to support the Scottish dairy industry.

The parliamentary Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee have published letters written to Michael Gove MP, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary of State (DEFRA) and Greg Clark MP, Secretary for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), strongly endorsing our position and demanding progress on the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA).

Not exact matches

The Chemical Industries Association has today written to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ask the Government

Other appointments include Michael Fallon as Secretary of State for Defence and Liz Truss as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Patterson, feels pretty strongly about it as well.

The reappointment of the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP as Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been welcomed by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Since 2010 she has been shadow secretary for environment, food and rural affairs, transport, and more recently international development.

Lidington became a member of the Shadow Cabinet in May 2002, replacing Ann Winterton as Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (later Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) after she resigned.

Conservatives — Monday 5th October — Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting and Conservation SNP — Friday 16th October, Fergus Ewing MSP, Tourism Minister (to be confirmed)

Witness (es): Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dr Peter Hayes, Director Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Eppel, Deputy Director, International Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Evidence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ian McKendry, Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories and the Caribbean, Department for International Development

Andrea Leadsom has been appointed Secretary for Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Liz Truss will continue in her role as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

[11] In July 2012, after two years as an MP, he was promoted to the Shadow Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as Parliamentary Private Secretary to shadow Secretary of State Mary Creagh [12] Following a reshuffle in October 2013, Evans joined Labour's Shadow Treasury Team as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Leslie.

Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, has been appointed shadow secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Jeremy Corbyn.

BASC will respond to the consultation launched by Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Affairs, Sue Hayman.

BASC statement on the appointment of Kerry McCarthy as shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meanwhile Michael Gove has been named Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, with pressure to reduce poor air quality in many towns and cities among his immediate priorities.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

England is poised to meet its recycling target of 17 per cent, according to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs Minister of state - Jane Kennedy Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department of Energy and Climate Change); and deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Huw Irranca - Davies

In 2013 she assumed the office of Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister of state - Mike O'Brien Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); and Deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Joan Ruddock

He was a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and a parliamentary aide to the former Welsh Secretary David Jones.

«Dear Jeremy, It has been a privilege to serve as shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under your leadership.

Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Maria Eagle MP Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Lucy Powell MP

Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Water, Forestry, Rural Affairs and Resource Management

Son of the late Tony Benn, Hilary held ministerial positions as Secretary of State for International Development from 2003 until 2007, and for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2007 until 2010.

Mary Creagh takes over from Hilary Benn as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, while Ann McKechin takes the Scotland portfolio over from Jim Murphy.

[12] Following her appointment as Prime Minister, May did not appoint him to the Cabinet on 14 July 2016; however, he returned to the Cabinet following the 2017 General Election as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what his estimate is of the number of boats in the UK that would require a licence or other form of authorisation to facilitate recreational fisheries under Article 47 of the Council Regulation establishing a community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy; [249749]

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proposals he has to make changes to the fishing quota system; and if he will make a statement.

Lord Gardiner of Kimble as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thérèse Coffey MP as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Speaking to the Wildlife Trust today David Cameron has announced that Nick Herbert MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will investigate the practicalities of setting up a scheme that will ensure any development that damages the environment makes a compensating investment in the environment elsewhere.

COAST now trusts that this evidence will be used to inform future government fisheries and marine environmental policy, as was promised by the now Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment, when the reserve was being set up.»

In a letter published by British newspaper The Guardian today, Owen Paterson, the United Kingdom's secretary of state for the environment and rural affairs, wrote to Syngenta that his government is «extremely disappointed that the Commission decided to propose significant restrictions on neonicotinoids on the basis of the partial risk assessment carried out by EFSA using unfinished and unagreed guidance.»

The ban «risks constraining Scotland's contribution to research and leaving Scotland without access to agricultural innovations which are making farming more sustainable elsewhere in the world,» 28 science organizations maintain in a letter sent on 17 August to the Scottish cabinet secretary for rural affairs, food and environment, Richard Lochhead.

The department for environment, food and rural affairs, run by Tory secretary of state Owen Paterson, and the business department, run by Lib Dem Vince Cable, could not agree on who was responsible for blocking the ban.

Last week Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced a call for evidence on a ban on third party puppy sales.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) secretary has been a vocal opponent of solar subsidies since she entered office last July, citing concerns over losing land for grazing and crops, as well as driving food production overseas.

Former UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband presented a rebuttal of the main points of the film and stated «There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific consensus, and that is part of scientific and democratic debate, but the science of climate change looks like fact to me.»

Last month, 2015 Goldman Prize winner Howard Wood celebrated a victory when Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, announced that a Marine Conservation Order (MCO) has... Read More