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United Kingdom Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Angela Rayner since 5 July 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Style	The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Secretary of State
Member of	Cabinet Privy Council
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's Pleasure
Formation	5 May 2005: (as Minister of State for Communities and Local Government) 18 September 2021: (as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) 8 July 2024: (as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government)
First holder	David Miliband (as Minister of State for Communities and Local Government)
Deputy	Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Building Safety
Salary	£159,038 per annum (2022) (including £86,584 MP salary)
Website	Official Website

The secretary of state for housing, communities and local government is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, and Cabinet minister, responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). They are responsible for local government in England.

The office holder works alongside the other ministers in the department. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for housing, communities and local government.

The current minister is Angela Rayner, who was appointed to the role under Sir Keir Starmer on 5 July 2024.

History

The Department of Communities and Local Government was created in 2006 by then British prime minister Tony Blair to replace John Prescott's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which had taken on the local government and regions portfolios from the defunct Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions in 2002.

The secretary of state took over the responsibilities of the minister of state for communities and local government. This post, within the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, was created in 2005, on the transfer of several functions from the deputy prime minister himself.

Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson renamed the position Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and gave the secretary and the department responsibility for carrying out the promise in the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto of "levelling up". Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer renamed the department as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 8 July 2024, retiring the levelling up monicker.

Responsibilities

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Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

• Strategic oversight of department's business
• Minister for inter-governmental relations
• Cross-cutting responsibility for Levelling Up
• Public Appointments

List of secretaries of state and ministers

Minister of State for Communities and Local Government
Minister of State			Term of office		Party	Ministry
		David Miliband MP for South Shields	5 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour	Blair III
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State			Term of office		Party	Ministry
		Ruth Kelly MP for Bolton West	6 May 2006	28 June 2007	Labour	Blair III
		Hazel Blears MP for Salford	28 June 2007	5 June 2009	Labour	Brown
		John Denham MP for Southampton Itchen	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour
		Eric Pickles MP for Brentwood and Ongar	12 May 2010	11 May 2015	Conservative	Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.)
		Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge Wells	11 May 2015	14 July 2016	Conservative	Cameron II
		Sajid Javid MP for Bromsgrove	14 July 2016	8 January 2018	Conservative	May I
						May II
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State			Term of office		Party	Ministry
		Sajid Javid MP for Bromsgrove	8 January 2018	30 April 2018	Conservative	May II
		James Brokenshire MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup	30 April 2018	24 July 2019	Conservative
		Robert Jenrick MP for Newark	24 July 2019	15 September 2021	Conservative	Johnson I
						Johnson II
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Secretary of State			Term of office		Party	Ministry
		Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath	15 September 2021	6 July 2022	Conservative	Johnson II
		Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge Wells	7 July 2022	6 September 2022	Conservative
		Simon Clarke MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	6 September 2022	25 October 2022	Conservative	Truss
		Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath	25 October 2022	5 July 2024	Conservative	Sunak
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State			Term of office		Party	Ministry
		Angela Rayner MP for Ashton under Lyne	5 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour	Starmer

Timeline of secretaries of state

References

1. "Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23" (PDF). 15 December 2022.
2. "Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
3. "Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government". gov.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
4. Stewart, Heather; Mason, Rowena; Elgot, Jessica (6 October 2021). "Michael Gove to push homebuilding in the north of England". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
5. "The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP".
6. Knight, Sam (5 May 2006). "Prescott loses his dream home: the mega department". The Times. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
7. ^ Cordon, Gavin (18 September 2021). "Michael Gove heads rebranded 'Department for Levelling Up'". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
8. "Department ditches 'levelling up' moniker | LocalGov". 8 July 2024.
9. "The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP". GOV.UK. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
10. "Rt Hon David Miliband". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
11. "Ruth Kelly". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
12. "Rt Hon Hazel Blears". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
13. "Rt Hon John Denham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
14. "Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
15. "Rt Hon Greg Clark MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
16. ^ "Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
17. "Sajid Javid announced as new Home Secretary after Amber Rudd's resignation". Sky News. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
18. "Robert Jenrick replaces James Brokenshire as housing secretary". Inside Housing. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
19. "The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP @GregClarkMP has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities". Twitter.com. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
20. "The Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP @SimonClarkeMP has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities @luhc". Twitter. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

Notelist

1. Still known officially as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government until 19 September 2021
2. Known as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities until official change on 9 July 2024

v t e Secretaries of state for housing, communities and local government
Minister of State for Communities and Local Government 2005–2006	Miliband
Secretaries of State for Communities and Local Government 2006–2018	Kelly Blears Denham Pickles Clark Javid
Secretaries of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government 2018–2021	Javid Brokenshire Jenrick Gove
Secretaries of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 2021–2024	Gove Clark Clarke Gove
Secretaries of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government 2024–present	Rayner

v t e Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Headquarters: 2 Marsham Street Ashdown House
Ministers	Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Minister of State for Housing and Planning Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Democracy and Local Growth Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Building Safety and Homelessness Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Faith, Communities and Resettlement Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government
Executive agencies	Planning Inspectorate Queen Elizabeth II Centre
Non-departmental public bodies	Ebbsfleet Development Corporation Homes England Housing Ombudsman Leasehold Advisory Service Regulator of Social Housing Valuation Tribunal Service Valuation Tribunal for England
Other bodies	Architects Registration Board Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Category

v t e UK cabinet portfolios
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
Cabinet ministers	Prime Minister / First Lord of the Treasury / Minister for the Union / Minister for the Civil Service Deputy Prime Minister / Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Chancellor of the Exchequer Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary Home Secretary Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Defence Secretary Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Justice Secretary / Lord Chancellor Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Health and Social Care Secretary Lord President of the Council / Leader of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Lords / Lord Privy Seal Business and Trade Secretary / President of the Board of Trade Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Work and Pensions Secretary Education Secretary / Minister for Women and Equalities Transport Secretary Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Northern Ireland Secretary Scottish Secretary Welsh Secretary
Also attending Cabinet	Chief Whip / Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Chief Secretary to the Treasury Attorney General for England and Wales / Advocate General for Northern Ireland Minister of State for International Development

• Ministerial offices in the United Kingdom
• 2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
• Housing ministers of the United Kingdom