Frazer becomes fifth housing minister this year
The MP for South East Cambridgeshire replaces Lee Rowley, who had been in the role for two months.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities confirmed Lucy Frazer’s appointment to minister for housing and planning yesterday.
Frazer took to Twitter today to share her initial thoughts on her new role. She wrote: “Building the homes we need and helping more people into home ownership are rightly important priorities for the government”. Later, she thanked Rowley for his work in the role.
Building the homes we need and helping more people into home ownership are rightly important priorities for the Government. Delighted to be given the opportunity to contribute to this work as Minister for Housing & Planning @luhc. Thank you @Lee4NED for your hard work in the role
— Lucy Frazer (@lucyfrazermp) November 9, 2022
Frazer is the fifth housing minister this year. Prior to Rowley, the post had been held by Marcus Jones, Stuart Andrew, and Christopher Pincher. There have been 14 housing ministers in the past ten years.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities is led by Michael Gove, who returned to the role in October after being fired by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2022.
With this rate of turnover will any of the government departments get anything done ?
By Anonymous
It does not matter what numpty is the so-called Housing Minister. What matters is the destruction of housing professionalism in government administration at national and local level by the Tories for over a decade to ‘shrink the state’ and create a Market Society, which has nothing to do with being conservative. It is a form of anarchism.
By James Yates
She didn`t come over very well on Question Time the other week, giving some strange responses to the audience, but for me housing in more than just about numbers and targets , it`s about design and quality, especially in our inner cities where glorious Victorian, Georgian, and other period housing has been flattened and either replaced with dross, or not at all.
By Anonymous