14 Housing Ministers in 10 Years – Are we due (another) change?
As voters decide whether the favourite to take over from Keir Starmer gets into parliament in the Makerfield by-election, we’re wondering whether, when the music stops on the current game of musical chairs for the leadership of the Labour Party, we’re likely to have a new Prime Minister and another Cabinet reshuffle.
So will we see the 15th Housing Minister in 10 years?
The average tenure of a housing minister is just 11 months.
What does this lack of continuity do for our sector?
- Matthew Pennycook: July 2024 – Present
- Lee Rowley: November 2023 – July 2024
- Rachel Maclean: February 2023 – November 2023
- Lucy Frazer: November 2022 – February 2023
- Lee Rowley: September 2022 – November 2022
- Marcus Jones: July 2022 – September 2022
- Stuart Andrew: February 2022 – July 2022
- Chris Pincher: February 2020 – February 2022
- Esther McVey: July 2019 – February 2020
- Kit Malthouse: July 2018 – July 2019
- Dominic Raab: January 2018 – July 2018
- Alok Sharma: June 2017 – January 2018
- Gavin Barwell: July 2016 – June 2017
- Brandon Lewis: July 2014 – July 2016
Now apply this to running a business. The average Managing Director in the private sector stays in post between 3 and 5 years – and typically much longer in family businesses. In three years, you can review and build a strategy, as well as implement it and measure the resulting growth.
Matthew Pennycook has had nearly 2 years to make a difference (and to use a football analogy, the league doesn’t lie) but just how much can you achieve in 11 months as a minister?
Today’s question – do Governments (of all colours) take the housebuilding sector seriously?
James Scott
MD
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