Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Member of the UK Shadow Cabinet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is a position with the UK Opposition's Shadow Cabinet; if the opposition party forms a new government, the designated person is a likely choice to become the new Levelling Up Secretary.
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |
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Shadow Cabinet | |
Appointer | Leader of the Opposition |
Formation | 11 June 1997 |
First holder | Norman Fowler |
Website | Shadow Cabinet |
The position has existed in many iterations, first as Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997 after the Government's reorganisation. The portfolio shifted among government departments for many years until resting on Communities and Local Government in 2006, until 2021 when it got its current name with the added portfolio of housing; until 2021, the Shadow Communities Secretary did not hold responsibility for housing as the Labour Party created a separate position, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, in 2016.
Under Michael Howard, the arrangement was slightly different. There was a Shadow Secretary of State for Local and Devolved Government Affairs in Shadow Cabinet who supervised a Shadow Local Government Secretary and a Shadow Regions Secretary outside of it.[1]
The current Shadow Communities Secretary is Angela Rayner. The main role is to scrutinise the levelling-up policy of the British government.[2]