Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Building Safety, Fire and Local Growth)

Organisations: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Responsibilities

• Building safety, regulations, Building Safety Regulator and remediation
• Grenfell Inquiry response
• Grenfell Community, Tower and Memorial
• Fire policy and operations
• Resilience, recovery, and emergencies
• Local and regional growth (including Local Growth Plans, Community Ownership, and future of legacy funding streams)
• High streets and towns
• Investment Zones and Freeports

Previous holders of this role

1. Alex Norris MP

   2024 to 2025

Announcements

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• Membership of Fundamental Review of Building Regulations Guidance
  • 31 July 2025
  • News story
• Deadline set for unsafe cladding removal
  • 17 July 2025
  • Press release
• Fairer parking drive as governments crackdown on unjust charges
  • 11 July 2025
  • News story
• Inter-Ministerial Group for Housing, Communities and Local Government communiqué: 4 June 2025
  • 04 July 2025
  • Policy paper
• Reforms to Building Safety Regulator to accelerate housebuilding
  • 30 June 2025
  • Press release
• Growth and local jobs top of the agenda as Cardiff Capital Region Investment Zone advances
  • 26 June 2025
  • Press release
• Emergency workers to be better protected from racial abuse
  • 11 June 2025
  • News story
• Membership of the Building Control Independent Panel
  • 24 April 2025
  • News story
• Responsibility for all fire functions moves to MHCLG
  • 01 April 2025
  • News story
• Vacant shops to be filled as high streets revitalised
  • 06 March 2025
  • Press release

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