Richard Benyon

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The Lord Benyon
PC
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Official portrait, 2017
Minister of State for Climate, Environment and Energy
Assumed office
14 November 2023

Notes

  1. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, Access to Nature and Biosecurity from May 2021 to September 2022 and Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs from June 2010 to October 2013.
  2. Sat as an independent politician while Conservative whip was suspended from 3 September to 28 October 2019.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newbury
20052019
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by
himself
as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for International Environment
Minister of State for International Environment
2022–present
Incumbent
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
Baron Benyon
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