Building Safety Minister

The Building Safety Minister (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Local Growth and Building Safety)) is part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Their responsibilities include:

• Building safety programme
• Grenfell recovery and rehousing
• Grenfell public inquiry
• Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme
• Tackling leasehold and freehold abuses
• Local resilience and emergencies (including winter preparedness (Transition, Covid, HGVs))
• Planning casework
• Lords Minister for the department’s work

The position is held by Alex Norris MP who was appointed on 9 July 2024. He was preceded by Rushanara Ali who resigned following attendance at the Franco-British Colloque, a conference sponsored by Saint-Gobain, the majority owner of Celotex which was criticised by the Grenfell Inquiry.

Norris is MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley and was named minister for democracy and local growth after the 2024 election.

Find out more at: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--114

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