Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

The **secretary of state for housing, communities and local government**, also known as the **communities secretary** or **levelling up secretary**, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom.

They are responsible for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. They are a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, seventh in the ministerial ranking.

## List of secretaries of state and ministers

|colspan=3|Minister of State|colspan=2|Term of office|Party|Ministry|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan=8|===Minister of State for Communities and Local Government===|||||||||||||
||**David Miliband**|2005|2006||Labour||Blair III|||||||
|colspan=8|===Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government===|||||||||||||
||**Ruth Kelly**|2006|2007||Labour||Blair III|||||||
||**Hazel Blears**|2007|2009||Labour|rowspan=2|Brown|||||||
||**John Denham**|2009|2010||Labour|||||||||
||**Eric Pickles**|2010|2015||Conservative||Cameron–Clegg|||||||
||**Greg Clark**|2015|2016||Conservative||Cameron II|||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background-color: "||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Sajid Javid**|rowspan=2|2016|rowspan=2|2018|rowspan=2|Conservative||May I|
||May II|||||||||||||
|colspan=8|===Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government===|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Sajid Javid**|2018|2018||Conservative|rowspan="2"|May II|||||
|style="background-color: "|||**James Brokenshire**|2018|2019||Conservative|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Robert Jenrick**|rowspan="2"|2019|rowspan="2"|2021|rowspan="2"|Conservative||Johnson I|
||Johnson II|||||||||||||
|colspan=8|===Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities===|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Michael Gove**|2021|2022||Conservative|rowspan="2"|Johnson II|||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Greg Clark**|2022|2022||Conservative|||||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Simon Clarke**|2022|2022||Conservative||Truss|||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Michael Gove**|2022|2024||Conservative||Sunak|||||
|colspan=8|===Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government===|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Angela Rayner**|2024|2025|rowspan="2"|Labour|rowspan="2"|Starmer|||||
|style="background-color: "|||**Steve Reed**|2025|Incumbent|||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**:
 Secretary of State
for Housing, Communities and Local Government
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg
- **insigniacaption**: Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
- **incumbent**: Steve Reed (politician), Steve Reed
- **image**: Steve Reed Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (crop 3).jpg
- **incumbentsince**: 5 September 2025
- **department**: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- **style**: The Right Honourable

- **type**: Minister of the Crown
- **status**: Secretary of State (United Kingdom), Secretary of State
- **reports to**: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Prime Minister
- **seat**: Westminster
- **nominator**: The Prime Minister
- **appointer**: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, The Monarch
- **termlength**: At His Majesty's Pleasure
- **formation**: * 5 May 2005:

* 18 September 2021:

* 8 July 2024:

- **salary**: £159,038 per annum
(including £86,584 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP salary)
- **first**: David Miliband

- **deputy**: Minister of State for Housing and Planning (United Kingdom), Minister of State for Housing and Planning