The monolithic Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, created by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott when Labour came to power in 1997, has been broken up. Environmental issues move over to a newly formed Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that replaces the discredited MAFF.
And responsibility for construction moves to the Department of Trade and Industry, along with control of the Regional Development Agencies. In a Downing Street briefing the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman said that, as economic motors for change, it made sense for them both to be at the DTI.
What is left of the DETR becomes the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions. With Prescott moving into a newly-formed office in Downing Street, the new department is headed by ex-Trade Secretary Stephen Byers.
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