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DLUHC hires minister following Lucy Frazer’s exit

News08 Feb 2023Michael Lloyd

The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has hired Rachel Maclean as minister of state, after Lucy Frazer left the role yesterday.

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Ms Maclean was previously minister of state at the Ministry of Justice between 7 September and 28 October 2022. DLUHC has not yet updated her portfolio with information on her brief in the department.

 

Ms Frazer left the role as housing minister after around three months in charge to head the new refocused Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

 

If announced as housing minister, Ms Maclean will be the 15th under the Conservative administration and the sixth in a year.

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Stuart Andrew held the role from 8 February to 6 July last year, Marcus Jones from 7 July to 7 September 2022, then Lee Rowley for 49 days before Ms Frazer was minister from 26 October to 7 February.

 

Ms Maclean served as parliamentary under secretary of state at the Home Office between 17 September 2021 and 6 July 2022, and had the same role at the Department for Transport between 14 February 2020 and 16 September 2021.

 

She was elected as a Conservative MP for Redditch in 2017 and sat on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee between September 2017 and June 2018.

Prior to her political career, she has worked at HSBC, set up a publishing company specialising in IT and software content with her husband and has co-founded an HR software company for small and medium-sized businesses.

 

She has also founded ‘Skilled and Ready’, a charity working with schools to help young people develop skills that businesses look for in their employees.

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