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Simon Clarke named new housing secretary
Simon Clarke has been named the new housing secretary as part of a cabinet shake-up from incoming prime minister Liz Truss.
The MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland has now been made the fourth housing secretary in just under a year, replacing Greg Clark who spent just two months in the role.
Mr Clarke’s most recent role in government was chief secretary to the Treasury, a job he held since September 2021.
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He has previously worked in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, then known as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, in 2020 when he was made minister for regional growth and local government.
Mr Clarke supported Brexit but is also a supporter of the country’s drive towards net zero by 2050 and in September 2018 organised a letter of 130 cross-party MPs in support of the target.
He also famously wrote a letter to the then housing secretary Michael Gove confirming that the Treasury was not willing to provide any additional funding to fix non-aluminium composite material buildings above 11 metres.
