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Cabinet reshuffle brings in new housing minister

News09 Feb 2022James Twomey

A Cabinet reshuffle by the prime minister has seen deputy chief whip Stuart Andrew become the new housing minister.

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Stuart Andrew becomes the new housing minister, making him the 11th housing minister in the past 12 years
Stuart Andrew becomes the new housing minister, making him the 11th housing minister in the past 12 years
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A Cabinet reshuffle by the prime minister has seen deputy chief whip Stuart Andrew become the new housing minister #UKhousing

The reshuffle comes amid a tense period for the prime minister, who is dealing with rebellious factions within his own party and resignations of close aides in the fall-out of investigations into Downing Street gatherings during national lockdowns.

 

Mr Andrew becomes the 20th housing minister in the past 25 years and the 11th since the Conservatives took power in 2010.

 

This rate of turnover has repeatedly been criticised by social housing commentators as blocking progress between the government and the sector.

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The new appointment comes not long after the housing ministry became the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in September last year and Michael Gove was appointed its secretary of state.

 

The new housing minister takes over from Christopher Pincher, appointed in February 2020, who is expected to become a whip.

 

Mr Andrew has served as MP for the Pudsey constituency in West Yorkshire since 2010 and also held the role of treasurer of HM Household.

His other roles included parliamentary under secretary of state and minister for defence procurement.

 

Mr Andrew previously campaigned against plans by Leeds City Council to build 70,000 homes on green belt land.

 

He also voted against a 2016 Labour amendment to a Housing and Planning Bill designed to ensure all rented homes were “fit for human habitation”.

 

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