The Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) was a civil service department of the Scottish Executive.
SEERAD was responsible for the following areas in Scotland: agriculture, rural development, food, the environment and fisheries.
Following the change of administration in May 2007, a restructuring exercise led to most SEERAD functions being continued under the new Scottish Executive Environment Directorate.
The Minister for Environment and Rural Development was Ross Finnie and he was assisted by the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Sarah Boyack.
A concordat set out agreed frameworks for co-operation between it and the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[1] Many of the functions of SEERAD were subsumed into the Environment Directorate in 2007.