Minister of State (Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety)

Lee Rowley MP

Biography

Lee Rowley was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Housing) in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 13 November 2023.

He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 7 September 2022 and 13 November 2023.

He was also Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury between 17 September 2021 and 6 July 2022.

He was elected the Conservative MP for North East Derbyshire on 8 June 2017.

Minister of State (Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety)

  • delivering the government’s housing supply strategy, including development in key urban areas e.g. inner London and Leeds, Cambridge
  • planning - Overall Reform, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) and Levelling-up and Regeneration Act implementation
  • Brownfield Infrastructure Land/Housing Infrastructure Funds & Homes England
  • building safety
  • leasehold and freehold reform
  • New Homes Ombudsman and redress
  • planning casework - including Holocaust Memorial

More about this role

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities