Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

==Background==
Defra's website states its three main objectives as: 'Secure a healthy natural environment for us all and deal with environmental risks; promote a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient economy; ensure a thriving farming sector and a sustainable, healthy and secure food supply'.The Defra website What do we do - our objectives in detail, Defra, 19 December 2008, accessed 11th February 2009
==People==
Updated October 2017
===Ministers===
*Theresa Villiers MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from July 2019
*George Eustice MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food since May 2015; and Defra minister for farming, food and marine environment since October 2013; former Portland Communications associate director (c2009).
*Thérèse Coffey MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment from July 2016
*John Gardiner, Lord Gardiner of Kimble - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity from June 2017; Defra minister from July 2016.
*David Rutley
====Previous Ministers====
*Michael Gove MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from June 2017-June 2019
*Andrea Leadsom MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2016 - 2017
*Lord de Mauley - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for natural environment and science
*Owen Paterson MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2012 to 2014
*Dan Rogerson MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for water, forestry, rural affairs and resource management 2013-2015
*Rory Stewart MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary from 2015
*Elizabeth Truss MP - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2014 to 2016
===Special advisers===
*James Starkie - former Portland Communications associate director and ex-head of regional press for the Vote Leave campaignMichael Gove signs up yet another special adviser from Portland, Public Affairs News, 27 September 2017
*Henry Cook - formerly of Portland Communications.
====Previous special advisers====
*Emma Boon - spad to Liz Truss since July 2015. Former campaign director and campaign manager of the Taxpayers' Alliance, journalist and lobbyist at the Brunswick Group.
*Guy Robinson - spad to Liz Truss and her predecessor Owen Paterson since 2012. Former lobbyist at Crosby Textor Fullbrook.
===Management===
*Clare Moriarty, Permanent Secretary 
*Professor Ian Boyd, Defra Chief Scientific Adviser
*Betsy Bassis, Director General, Chief Operating Officer
*Nick Joicey, Director General for Strategy, EU exit and Finance
*David Kennedy, Director General for Food, Farming and Biosecurity
*Sonia Phippard, Director General for Marine, Natural Environment and Rural
*Emma Howard Boyd, Ex officio Defra board member
*Andrew Sells, Ex officio Defra board member
*Steve Holliday, Non-executive board member
*Peter Bonfield, Non-executive board member
*Catherine Doran, Non-executive board member
*Paul Rew, Non-executive board member 
====Previous management====
*Bronwyn Hill CBE, Permanent Secretary 
*Professor Ian Boyd, Defra Chief Scientific Adviser 
*Alastair Bridges, Finance Director
*Nick Joicey, Director General, Strategy, International and Biosecurity
*Betsy Bassis, Director General, Chief Operating Officer
*Sonia Phippard, Director General, Policy Delivery Group
*Catherine Doran, Non-executive board member
*Iain Ferguson, Non-executive board member 
*Sir Tony Hawkhead CBE, Non-executive board member 
*Paul Rew, Non-executive board member 
*Helen Ghosh Permanent Secretary, Chair of Management Board
*Bill Stow Director General, Strategy and Evidence Group 
*Katrina Williams Director General, Food and Farming Group
*Gill Aitken Solicitor and Director General, Legal Services
*Peter Unwin Director General, Natural Environment Group
*Ian Watt Director General, Finance and Commercial
*Professor Robert Watson Chief Scientific Adviser
====Chief Scientific Adviser====
*Professor Ian Boyd Defra Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Ian Boyd, DEFRA, acc 27 May 2014 
*Sir Robert Watson FRS
====Press and comms staff====
*Oliver Claydon, press officer for Defra, previously worked for PR and lobbying firm Bell Pottinger Private and as a communications secondee to top legal firm Berwin Leighton Paisner Oliver Claydon, LinkedIn profile, accessed 28 October 2014 
====Department organogram====
Accessible at: https://data.gov.uk/organogram/department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs/2016-03-31 Shows grade and pay of key staff (latest update: March 2016)
==Consultancies==
In 2012-13 law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was ranked second out of the top 10 consultancies used by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which paid FBD £587,922 in 2012-13. Consultants, Written Answers, Commons Debates, Hansard, undated, Chris Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by his Department in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid. [195574] 
 
==Contact details, Resources, Notes==
===Contact===
*Address: Defra, Customer Contact Unit, Eastbury House, 30 - 34 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TL 
*Contact Defra's Ministers: Defra, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR, 
*Phone: 08459 33 55 77
*Fax: Customer Contact Unit 020 7238 2188
*Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/
===External Resources===
===Notes===
Category:British Propaganda
Category:UK Government Department