Richard Benyon

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Benyon
PC
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Official portrait, 2017
Minister of State for Climate, Environment and Energy
In office
14 November 2023 –5 July 2024

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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