Liz Truss is to carry on as environment, food and rural affairs secretary in the new Conservative majority government's cabinet.
Truss, who was handed the role towards the end of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, has been selected by prime minister David Cameron to pick up from where she left off.
The South West Norfolk MP, who replaced Owen Paterson in the role in July 2014, had been widely tipped for promotion.
However, she will now be in charge of putting into practice some of the food and environment pledges the Tories made in their manifesto, such as increasing the number of British-made foods given protected name status across Europe.
In other cabinet appointment news, Jeremy Hunt will continue in his role as health secretary, Greg Clark has been appointed as the new communities and local government secretary, while Sajid Javid has been made business secretary, and Amber Rudd is the new energy and climate change secretary.
Maria Eagle, meanwhile, has retained her post as shadow Defra secretary, as temporary Labour leader Harriet Harman appointed her shadow cabinet.
Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt, all Labour leadership contenders, remain in their posts of shadow home secretary, shadow health secretary, shadow business secretary and shadow education secretary, respectively.
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