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Richard Benyon was born on 21 October, 1960 in Reading, Berkshire, England, is a British Conservative politician. Discover Richard Benyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Born 21 October, 1960
Birthday 21 October
Birthplace Reading, Berkshire, England
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1960

Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, Baron Benyon (born 21 October 1960) is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Climate, Environment and Energy since 2023.

Benyon was born on 21 October 1960 in Reading.

1970

He is the son of Sir William Richard Benyon, a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1992, and is the great-great-grandson of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.

He was educated at nearby Bradfield College and the Royal Agricultural College.

1981

Having attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets, British Army, as a second lieutenant on 8 August 1981.

1983

He was promoted to lieutenant on 8 August 1983.

During his four years' service, he was posted to Northern Ireland, other parts of the UK, and the Far East.

1984

He transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 8 August 1984, thereby ending his military career but maintaining call-up liability.

1991

He was elected to Newbury Council in 1991 and became Conservative group leader in 1994.

He was elected in 1991 to Newbury District Council, and became Conservative group leader in 1994, in opposition to the then-ruling Liberal Democrats.

1995

He lost his council seat in 1995.

1997

Benyon contested the Newbury constituency at the 1997 general election but lost heavily to the 1993 by-election incumbent Liberal Democrat David Rendel.

2001

Benyon and Rendel contested Newbury again at the 2001 general election, and Rendel came out again as the victor with a reduced majority.

2004

Back in 2004, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution proposed that 30% of the United Kingdom's waters should become reserves preventing fishing or any other kind of extraction.

2005

A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newbury from 2005 to 2019.

Benyon studied at the Royal Agricultural College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before serving in the British Army, being posted to Northern Ireland and the Far East with the Royal Green Jackets.

Benyon became MP for Newbury at the 2005 general election.

In opposition, he served on the Home Affairs Select Committee, as an opposition whip and as a shadow minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

He and Rendel again contested Newbury at the 2005 UK general election and Benyon was elected with a majority of 3,460, replacing Rendel.

Benyon made his maiden speech on 20 May 2005 and served on the Home Affairs Select Committee from 2005 to 2007, when he became an Opposition Whip.

2009

He was the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2009 until the 2010 general election when he entered government.

He was also one of the first 15 MPs to support David Cameron's Conservative Party leadership bid.

In May 2009, he was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the "saints" in the expenses scandal exposed by that newspaper.

Benyon was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the first Cameron Ministry.

2010

Under David Cameron, he first served as a government minister at DEFRA from May 2010 to October 2013.

2012

In 2012, while Wildlife Minister, Benyon refused a request from other MPs that possession of carbofuran, a deadly poison used to kill raptors that is banned in Canada and the European Union, should be made a criminal offence.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was quoted as saying: "The minister's shocking refusal to outlaw the possession of a poison used only by rogue gamekeepers to illegally kill birds of prey would be inexplicable were it not for his own cosy links to the shooting lobby".

In December 2012, Benyon's neighbours complained when Hanson Aggregates were given permission to extract 200,000 tonnes of sand and gravel a year from woodlands on Benyon's family estate, leading it to be described as a 'bombsite'.

Benyon said that the estate was controlled by a family trust.

2013

and remained in post until a ministerial reshuffle in October 2013.

In 2013, Benyon succeeded in preventing any cuts in fishing quotas.

He said that if British fishermen had their quotas cut they would dump even more fish overboard, and the more fish they are allowed to catch, the better it will be for "the health of our seas".

Also in 2013, Benyon's policy relating to access to rivers and his role as an owner of fishing rights was criticised.

Writing in The Guardian, George Monbiot wrote that Benyon "repeatedly wields his power in ways that promote his own interests" and being "so enmeshed in potential conflicts of interest that were he to recuse himself from all the issues in which he has a personal stake, he would have nothing to do but order the departmental paperclips".

2014

In 2014, Benyon's family firm was part of a property consortium that purchased New Era estate, one of the last affordable housing estates for working-class Londoners.

The consortium increased the rents and announced plans to increase them further to match the rest of the market, effectively displacing its current residents.

Following negative publicity and protests by the tenants, Benyon Estate announced that it would sell its stake in the consortium back to the landlord, Westbrook Partners, a New York–based property investment company.

2019

He had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after voting against the government, and sat as an independent MP until he had the whip restored on 28 October 2019.

2020

In December 2020, it was announced Benyon would have a life peerage conferred after a nomination by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Following the resignation of Lord Gardiner of Kimble in May 2021, he was again made Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.