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Who is responsible for what in the new government
Post Date: 21 May 2010
DECC
Chris Huhne MP for Eastleigh
Gregory Barker MP for Bexhill and Battle
Charles Hendry MP for Wealden
Department for Transport
Philip Hammond, MP for Runnymede and Weybridge: responsible for transport security - including Transec, high speed rail, transport strategy
Defra
Caroline Spelman MP for Meriden
James Paice MP for South East Cambridgeshire
Richard Benyon MP for Newbury
Lord Henley (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Defra is the only department which has so far published information about which minister is responsible for which policy area.
To make it easier for you, we're listing these below in alphabetical order.
If and when the other departments do the same thing we will add that to this list:
| Agricultural Wages | Jim Paice |
| Agriculture and forestry carbon budgets | Jim Paice |
| Air quality | Lord Henley |
| All departmental business in the Lords | Lord Henley |
| Animal health (including endemic and exotic diseases) | Jim Paice |
| Apprenticeships | Richard Benyon |
| Bee health | Lord Henley |
| Better regulation | Jim Paice |
| Biodiversity | Richard Benyon |
| biodiversity | Caroline Spelman |
| Biofuels | Lord Henley |
| CAP reform, | Caroline Spelman |
| Chemicals and pesticides (inc CBRN) | Lord Henley |
| Climate change | Caroline Spelman |
| Climate change & adaptation | Lord Henley |
| Climate change & Defra's interest in mitigation and overall carbon budgets lead | Lord Henley |
| Coastal and wider access, countryside and rights of way | Richard Benyon |
| Coastal erosion | Richard Benyon |
| Dangerous Dogs | Lord Henley |
| Defra overall responsibility | Caroline Spelman |
| Departmental administration | Richard Benyon |
| Deputising for the Secretary of State at EU Agriculture Council | Jim Paice |
| Deputising for the Secretary of State at EU Environment Council | Lord Henley |
| Ecosystem services | Richard Benyon |
| Emergencies | Caroline Spelman |
| Environment Agency | Caroline Spelman |
| Environmental regulation | Lord Henley |
| EU and international relations | Caroline Spelman |
| EU Fisheries Council | Richard Benyon |
| Farming | Jim Paice |
| Fisheries, including CFP | Richard Benyon |
| Flooding and water (including Nitrates) | Richard Benyon |
| Food | Jim Paice |
| Forestry (including Forestry Commission) | Jim Paice |
| Gangmasters Licensing | Jim Paice |
| Global monitoring of environmental security (GMES) | Lord Henley |
| GMOs | Lord Henley |
| Hunting and shooting | Jim Paice |
| Inland waterways (including British Waterways) | Richard Benyon |
| JNCC | Richard Benyon |
| Kew Gardens | Lord Henley |
| Land management (including commons and contaminated land) and soil | Richard Benyon |
| Legislative programme | Caroline Spelman |
| Local and regional government | Lord Henley |
| Local environmental quality, including noise | Lord Henley |
| Localism and third sector | Lord Henley |
| Marine and Coastal Access Act implementation | Richard Benyon |
| Marine Environment | Richard Benyon |
| Marine Management Organisation | Richard Benyon |
| Nanotechnology | Lord Henley |
| National parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty | Richard Benyon |
| Natural England | Caroline Spelman |
| Natural environment | Richard Benyon |
| Plant health | Lord Henley |
| RDPE | Jim Paice |
| Responsibility and cost-sharing | Jim Paice |
| Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution | Lord Henley |
| Rural Affairs | Richard Benyon |
| Science, evidence and research | Lord Henley |
| Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) | Jim Paice |
| Single Payments Scheme | Jim Paice |
| Strategy, budget and finances | Caroline Spelman |
| Sustainable Consumption and Production | Lord Henley |
| Sustainable development | Lord Henley |
| Waste and recycling | Lord Henley |
| Welfare of companion and wild animals | Lord Henley |
| Welfare of farm animals | Jim Paice |
| Wildlife | Richard Benyon |




