Steve Reed OBE MP
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Steve Barclay
Member of Parliament for Streatham and Croydon North
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2024
Preceded by	Constituency established
Member of Parliament for Croydon North
In office 29 November 2012 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Malcolm Wicks
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Shadow portfolios Shadow Secretary of State 2023–2024 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2021–2023 Justice 2020–2021 Communities and Local Government Shadow Minister 2019–2020 Children and Families 2016–2019 Civil Society 2015–2016 Local Government 2013–2015 Crime Prevention
Leader of Lambeth Council
In office 24 May 2006 – 29 November 2012
Preceded by	Peter Truesdale
Succeeded by	Lib Peck
Member of Lambeth Council for Brixton Hill
In office 2 May 2002 – 29 November 2012
Succeeded by	Martin Tiedemann
Personal details
Born	Steven Mark Ward Reed (1963-11-12) 12 November 1963 (age 61) St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Alma mater	University of Sheffield
Website	Official website

Steven Mark Ward Reed OBE (born 12 November 1963) is a British politician who has been Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024.^[1] A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Croydon North since a 2012 by-election.^[2]

He was Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from 2021 to 2023. Before his election to Parliament, he was leader of Lambeth London Borough Council from 2006 to 2012.

Reed is gay, and married his partner in July 2022.^[3]

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