| Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Category | Cabinet position | |||
| Style | The Right Honourable Housing Secretary | |||
| Inaugural holder | maze.e | |||
| Number of Housing Secretaries | 21 | |||
The Housing Secretary, known in full as the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, is an official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The office is a cabinet-level position. The position of Housing Secretary is currently held by Mainline421, who was appointed to the role by Prime Minister Saracen's Fez on 15th November 2020.
The responsibilities of the Housing Secretary include overseeing: building regulations, decentralisation, fire services, housing, local government, planning, race equality, and urban regeneration.
The Housing Secretary often works closely with the Secretary of State for the Home Department due to the overlap between their respective roles.
Statements of Intent and Departmental Reviews[]
Housing Secretaries have produced the following statements of intent and departmental reviews:
| Type | Communities Secretary | Released | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statement of Intent | Lipvig | April 2012 | Passed without vote |
| Statement of Intent | jamestg | July 2016 | Passed without vote |
List of Housing Secretaries[]
maze.e was appointed as the first Housing Secretary for the Labour Party following the sixth general election and since him, there have been 20 other Housing Secretaries:
| Housing Secretary | Alternative Role | Party | Took office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| maze.e | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Labour | December 2007 | May 2008 | |
| Wednesday Bass | Secretary of State for Devolution and Local Government | Conservative | September 2010 | October 2010 | |
| adamrules247 | Secretary of State for Local Government | Conservative | November 2010 | March 2011 | |
| xXedixXx | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Labour | April 2011 | October 2011 | |
| Lipvig | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Conservative | April 2012 | September 2012 | |
| Angry Spartan | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Libertarian | April 2013 | August 2013 | |
| abrack | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Socialist | April 2014 | October 2014 | |
| Jean-Luc Picard | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Green | October 2014 | February 2015 | |
| Little Toy Gun | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Green | February 2015 | April 2015 | |
| DanE1998 | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Labour | May 2015 | July 2015 | |
| emiloujess | (combined with Secretary of State for Transport) | Liberal | October 2015 | November 2015 | |
| Tahret | (combined with Secretary of State for Transport) | Liberal | November 2015 | December 2015 | |
| PetrosAC | (combined with Secretary of State for the Home Department) | Liberal | December 2015 | April 2016 | |
| Jamestg | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Conservative | April 2016 | October 2016 | |
| Saracen's Fez | Secretary of State for Communities and the Nations | Labour | August 2017 | November 2017 | |
| Andrew97 | Secretary of State for Infrastructure | Conservative | December 2018 | July 2019 | |
| Samuel J. Booker | Secretary of State for Infrastructure | Labour | July 2019 | September 2019 | |
| Mainline421 | Secretary of State for Infrastructure | Liberal Democrat | September 2019 | December 2019 | |
| yaseen1000 | Secretary of State for Infrastructure | Labour | December 2019 | April 2020 | |
| Aph | (combined with Secretary of State for the Home Department) | Citizen's | May 2020 | November 2020 | |
| Mainline421 | Liberal Democrat | November 2020 | incumbent | ||