Victoria Prentis MP appointed to Fisheries in DEFRA after reshuffle

Victoria Prentis MP, has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

She is the current Conservative MP for Banbury and was elected to Parliament in May 2015. Since her election she has served on the Justice Select Committee from 2015 to 2019, the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments from 2015 to 2017, and as a lay member on the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art from 2019.

Victoria also served as Principal Private Secretary to the Attorney General from 2019 to 2020, to the Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019, and to Junior Ministers at the Department for Transport from 2016 to 2017.

She will join George Eustice in the Department after he was appointed  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary following last week’s cabinet reshuffle. 

Source: DEFRA