Parliamentary Under-Secretary – Huw Irranca-Davies MP (Minister for Marine and Natural Environment)
Responsibilities
- Marine environment and Marine Bill
- Fisheries
- Natural environment policy
- Natural England
- Land management; Soil
- Rural development programme for England (RDPE) (agri-environment/forestry schemes)
- National parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty
- Coastal and wider access, countryside & rights of way
- Coastal erosion
- Inland Waterways and British Waterways
- Biodiversity
- Sponsorship of Kew Gardens
- Ecosystem services
- Forestry
- Flooding and water (including Nitrates Directive) Better regulation; Third Sector; Apprenticeships
Biography
Huw Irranca-Davies joins Defra from the Wales Office where he has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales since June 2007. He has sat on the Procedures Select Committee, Standing Committee for the Police Reform Bill, Fireworks Bill and Communications Bill amongst others. He has also served as a Government Whip (June 2006-June 2007) and was previously a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department of Work and Pensions, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Northern Ireland Office. He has sat on the Welsh Grand Committee and the Northern Ireland Grand Committee.
In his early career Huw Irranca-Davies worked for local authorities in leisure management and he later worked in private sector management and as a lecturer at Swansea Institute of Higher Education.
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Page published: 8 October 2008