Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
 	 	 	 	
Incumbent 	Incumbent 	 	 	
Saracen's Fez 	Saracen's Fez 	 	 	
since 15th November 2020 	since 15th November 2020 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
Category 	Cabinet Position 	 	 	
Style 	The Right HonourableEnvironment Secretary 	 	 	
Inaugural holder 	rich_ 	 	 	
Number of Environment Secretaries 	31 	 	 	
The Environment Secretary, known in full as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is an official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The office is a cabinet-level position. The position of Environment Secretary is currently held by Saracen's Fez, who appointed himself to the role on 15th November 2020.
The responsibilities of the Environment Secretary often change every term, simply because other miniature roles are added to it such as energy and climate change. Some of the policies that the Environment Secretary is responsible for include: agriculture, air quality, animal welfare, conservation, fisheries, flooding, national parks and waste management.
The Environment Secretary often works closely with several other Ministers to ensure that their plans meet the environmental aims of the Government.
== Statements of Intent and Departmental Reviews ==
Environment Secretaries have produced the following statements of intent and departmental reviews:
Type 	Environment Secretary	Released 	Result
Departmental Review	Lime-man 	November 2015 	Passed without vote
Statement of Intent	Lime-man 	November 2015 	Passed by vote
Statement of Intent	Lime-man 	November 2015 	Passed without vote
Statement of Intent	adam9317 	September 2016	Passed without vote
Statement of Intent	CoffeeAndPolitics 	May 2017 	Passed without vote
Statement of Intent	Afcwimbledon2 	June 2017 	Passed without vote
Ministerial Report 	CoffeeAndPolitics 	August 2019 	Failed
Ministerial Report 	Theloniouss 	June 2020 	Passed by vote
== List of Environment Secretaries ==
rich_ was appointed as the first Environment Secretary for the Liberal Democrats following the second general election and since him, there have been 30 other Environment Secretaries.
Environment Secretary	Alternative Role 	Party	Party 	Took office 	Left office
rich_ 	 	 	Liberal 	December 2005 	May 2006
bikerx23 	 	 	Conservative 	June 2006 	November 2006
Ed 	 	 	Liberal 	June 2008 	November 2008
The Referee 	Secretary of State for the Environment (November 2010 - March 2011) 	 	Conservative 	May 2010 	March 2011
sandys1000 	 	 	Labour 	April 2011 	October 2011
Bobsyourteapots 	 	 	Labour 	October 2011 	March 2012
tehFrance 	 	 	Conservative 	April 2012 	September 2012
PoGo HoPz 	 	 	Socialist 	October 2012 	March 2013
Dapperatchik 	Secretary of State for Energy, Environment, Food, Rural Affairs and Climate Change	 	Conservative 	April 2013 	August 2013
Moleman1996 	Secretary of State for Energy, Environment, Food, Rural Affairs and Climate Change	 	Conservative 	September 2013	March 2014
Little Toy Gun 	Secretary of State for Energy, Environment, Food, Rural Affairs and Climate Change	 	Green 	April 2014 	October 2014
Chlorophile 	Secretary of State for Energy, Environment, Food, Rural Affairs and Climate Change	 	Green 	October 2014 	April 2015
James222 	Secretary of State for Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Affairs 	 	Labour 	May 2015 	July 2015
Andy98 	 	 	Green 	July 2015 	August 2015
Lime-man 	Secretary of State for Environment, Energy and Climate Change 	 	Labour 	October 2015 	December 2015
banterboy 	 	 	Conservative 	April 2016 	August 2016
adam9317 	 	 	Conservative 	August 2016 	November 2016
SakuraCayla 	(combined with Secretary of State for the Home Department) 	 	Labour 	November 2016 	February 2017
CoffeeAndPolitics 	Secretary of State for Energy and Environment 	 	Labour 	February 2017 	May 2017
Afcwimbledon2 	Secretary of State for Energy and Environment (June - August 2017)
Secretary of State for the Environment, Energy and Agriculture (August - September 2017)	 	Liberal 	June 2017 	September 2017
Airmed 	Secretary of State for the Environment, Energy and Agriculture 	 	Liberal 	September 2017	November 2017
DayneD89 	Secretary of State for the Environment, Energy and Agriculture 	 	Liberal 	November 2017 	November 2017
Jarred 	Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Food, Energy and Environment 	 	Liberal 	December 2017 	March 2018
04MR17 	Secretary of State for Infrastructure 	 	Liberal 	March 2018 	June 2018
Life_peer 	Secretary of State for Sustainability 	 	Conservative 	June 2018 	December 2018
Koalifications 	Secretary of State for Industrial Strategy and Sustainability 	 	Conservative 	December 2018 	July 2019
CoffeeAndPolitics 	Secretary of State for Environmental Affairs 	 	Liberal Democrat	July 2019 	September 2019
shadowdweller 	Secretary of State for Environmental Affairs 	 	Liberal Democrat	September 2019	December 2019
Mainline421 	 	 	Liberal Democrat	December 2019 	May 2020
Theloniouss 	 	 	Citizen's 	May 2020 	November 2020
Saracen's Fez 	 	 	Liberal Democrat	November 2020 	incumbent
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