Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government)

Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for:

  • Local government policy, including local government reform
  • Local government finances (including local authority sustainability and business rates retention)
  • Adult social care
  • Local government interventions policy and oversight of existing interventions
  • Local government pensions
  • Troubled Families
  • Homelessness
  • Supported housing
  • Parks and green spaces

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Marcus Jones MP

    2015 to 2018