Ministerial role
Minister of State for Agriculture and Food
Organisations:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Responsibilities
Ministerial responsibilities within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs changed following the ministerial appointments on 7 October 2013
The minister is responsible for agriculture and food at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Responsibilities include:
- animal health (including endemic and exotic diseases)
- farming and food
- hunting and shooting
- Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE)
- Single Payments Scheme
- welfare of farm animals
Previous holders of this role
-
David Heath CBE
2012 to 2013
-
The Rt Hon James Paice
2010 to 2012
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Cage trapping and shooting
- Monitoring the pilot badger cull
- Spending on cattle and badger vaccination
- Measure whether the pilot badger cull has been safe and humane
- Financial implications for farmers withdrawing from badger cull
- Monitoring of the pilot badger cull
- Launch of week to inspire small food and drink businesses to export
- Briefing to Ministers on alternative pesticides (neonicotinoids)
- Estimates of up to date population size of badgers and foxes in the UK
- Qualifications required for appointment on site monitoring of for pilot badger culls