Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Housing and Homelessness)

Organisations: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Responsibilities

  • asylum - including relevant Houses in multiple occupation (HMO) reform, Standard Minimum Guarantee (SMG), Special Development Order-planning minister
  • Afghan resettlement - including Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy
  • Homes For Ukraine, Hong Kong BNOs (British National (Overseas)), Chagossians resettlement programmes
  • homelessness and rough sleeping
  • Supporting Families/Changing Futures programmes
  • domestic abuse
  • exempt accommodation
  • Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions policy
  • The Union and Constitution, and local government engagement in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • retained EU Law programme
  • departmental SI (Statutory Instruments) minister
  • planning casework
  • Ministerial Disability Champion

Previous holders of this role

  1. Felicity Buchan

    2022 to 2024