Steven Mark Ward Reed OBE is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024.

Reed served as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from September 2023 to July 2024, for Communities and Local Government from 2020 to 2021, and for Justice from 2021 to 2023.

[5][3] Reed first stood for the Lambeth London Borough Council in the 1998 election and won the Town Hall ward (now Brixton Hill).

Reed was reported to the Standards Board by a Conservative councillor after he disclosed that she was barred from voting on financial matters because of her refusal to pay council tax on one of her properties for several years.

[23] Reed was named one of the three most influential council leaders in the country by the Local Government Chronicle in 2011[24] and was the highest-ranked Labour politician in the 2010 Pink List compiled by The Independent on Sunday.

[25] Reed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to local government.

[26] Reed's first attempt to enter Parliament was in Lambeth, contesting the Labour nomination for the Streatham constituency in 2008, on the retirement of Keith Hill.

[36] Reed's bill was passed on 6 July 2018; it requires that police attending mental hospitals to apply restraints must wear body cameras.

[41] On 4 September 2023, Keir Starmer appointed Reed as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

[43] When the government's controversial changes to farmers' inheritance tax exemption rules were first announced, he claimed that they "would not impact the vast majority of farm businesses".