Secretary Of State For Levelling Up, Housing And Communities
The secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, also referred to as the levelling up secretary, 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 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
They are responsible for local government in England.
| United Kingdom Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |
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| Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |
| Style | Levelling Up Secretary (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth) |
| Type | Minister of the Crown |
| Status | Secretary of State |
| Member of | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | www |
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The office holder works alongside the other ministers in the department. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities.
Michael Gove held the position starting from 25 October 2022, previously held the position from September 2021 to July 2022 under Boris Johnson before being dismissed and eventually being reappointed by Rishi Sunak in October 2022.
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.[citation needed]
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".
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 | ||
.jpg) | 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 | |||||||
 | Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath | 15 September 2021 | 18 September 2021 | Conservative | |||
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |||||||
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Party | Ministry | ||||
| | Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath | 18 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 | ||
.jpg) | Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath | 25 October 2022 | Incumbent | Conservative | Sunak | ||
Timeline of secretaries of state
References
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