Richard Benyon Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2009 until the 2010 general election when he entered government. He was also one of the first 15 MPs to support David Cameron's Conservative Party leadership bid. In May 2009, he was listed by "The Daily Telegraph" as one of the "saints" in the expenses scandal exposed by that newspaper. He was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the first Cameron Ministry. and remained in post until the junior and middle ranking Cameron reshuffle of October 2013. In 2012, while Wildlife
Parliamentary privilege in the United Kingdom was unsuccessfully used to try and prevent details of 2010 MPs expenses scandal from emerging. In recent years the doctrine of Parliamentary privilege has made headlines in relation to the arrest of Damian Green and several cases relating to super-injunctions such as "RJW & SJW v The Guardian newspaper & Person or Persons Unknown" ('Trafigura') and "CTB v News Group Newspapers" leading to calls to reform the law relating to privilege. Parliamentary privilege has two main components: The doctrine was first enshrined in law after the Glorious Revolution following the passage of the 1689 Bill of Rights. Parliamentary privilege in