Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment)
Organisations:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Current role holder:
Rebecca Pow MP
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- domestic natural environment
- floods and water
- 25 Year Environment Plan, including input on Environmental Land Management design
- Environment Bill
- lead for Environment Agency and Natural England
- Commons Minister for water, international environment, forestry and rural
Current role holder
Rebecca Pow MP
Rebecca Pow was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 10 September 2019.
Rebecca was previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport between 23 May 2019 and 10 September 2019.
Previous holders of this role
-
David Rutley MP
2018 to 2018
Announcements
Subscriptions
- A boost for bees as Defra works with beekeepers to implement the Healthy Bees Plan 2030
- Review of regulatory controls to strengthen protections for water environment
- £9 million fund for local authorities to tackle air pollution
- Floods Minister chairs roundtable to address flood risk along the Aire & Calder
- Thousands of hectares of vital peatland to be restored to help tackle climate change and protect biodiversity
- Local communities urged to help shape the natural world around them
- Government boosts UK resilience against climate change
- Funding boost for farmers to tackle water pollution
- More than 1,000 flood schemes to benefit from record investment
- Multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery