Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety)

Organisations: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Responsibilities

  • delivering the government’s housing supply strategy, including development in key urban areas e.g. inner London and Leeds, Cambridge
  • planning - Overall Reform, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) and Levelling-up and Regeneration Act implementation
  • Brownfield Infrastructure Land/Housing Infrastructure Funds & Homes England
  • building safety
  • leasehold and freehold reform
  • New Homes Ombudsman and redress
  • planning casework - including Holocaust Memorial

Previous holders of this role

  1. Lee Rowley

    2023 to 2024