Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Organisations:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Current role holder:
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP
Responsibilities
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She has specific responsibilities for:
- planning and land use
- protected landscapes
- rural communities
- climate adaptation
- international biodiversity
- access to nature
- tree planting and forestry
- green finance
- domestic biodiversity
- sponsorship of Natural England, Forestry Commission, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Current role holder
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 22 July 2026.
She was elected as the MP for Suffolk Coastal in July 2024.