Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for water, forestry, rural affairs and resource management
Organisations:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for water, resource and environmental management, rural Affairs and forestry, in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Responsibilities include:
Water
- Water resource management and quality (including Ofwat)
- Water Bill
- Flooding, coastal erosion and flood insurance
- Inland waterways
Resource and environmental management
- Climate change adaptation
- Environmental impacts of climate change mitigation (including biofuels)
- Environmental regulation
- Sustainable development including sustainable consumption and production
- Waste management
- Air quality, noise and litter
- Localism and civil society
- Deputising for the Secretary of State at EU Environment Council
Rural Affairs and forestry
- Broadband and mobile technologies
- Countryside and rights of way including coastal and wider access
- Economic development, skills and apprenticeships
- Domestic forestry policy (including Forestry Commission)
Commons handling of Lords portfolio
- Environmental science
- Nanotechnology
- Pesticides, chemicals and industrial pollution
- Genetically modified organisms
- Plant and bee health
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Food and Environment Research Agency
- Departmental administration
- New Covent Garden Market Authority
- Thames Tideway Tunnel
- PFI projects
Previous holders of this role
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Dan Rogerson
2013 to 2015