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A revolving door of housing ministers has seen 16 housing ministers since 2010 and a new survey reveals which comes out on top.
A new report by Searchland reveals which housing minister has been the most successful when it comes to the number of new homes built under their tenure in the position.
Of the 23 housing ministers analysed by Searchland, 14 were Conservative versus nine from the Labour Party.
The last two housing ministers, Rachel Maclean and Lee Rowley, have not been included due to a lack of dwellings completion data during their time in the role.
The research shows that despite her short reign Lucy Frazer has been crowned the most successful housing minister. Ms Frazer, who was appointed to the role by Rishi Sunak following Liz Truss’ short reign as PM, held the position for just four short months.
However, in that time, some 18,846 dwellings were completed on average per month, the highest level of completions under any housing minister.
After Frazer, Esther McVey ranks as the second most successful, with an average of 17,978 homes completed per month during her time as housing minister between July 2019 to February 2020.
Yvette Cooper, who was housing minister between May 2005 and January 2008, takes bronze with an average of 17,984 homes completed per month, also making her the most successful Labour candidate to have held the position.
Co-founder and chief executive of Searchland, Mitchell Fasanya, said: “It’s interesting to see that despite the revolving door of housing ministers in recent times, they’ve overseen some of the highest rates of housing completions this side of the Millenium.
“But, regardless of which party is in power, I think we can all agree that a far greater degree of stability is required if we are to actually address the housing crisis.
“The long-term issue of housing delivery is one that simply can’t be addressed when the housing minister is shown the door within less than a year of holding the position.”
Since 1997, the nine Labour housing ministers have held the position for 156 months versus 153 for the 14 Conservative housing ministers.
During that time, they have averaged 17 months per minister within the position versus just 11 for Conservative housing ministers.
Conservative housing ministers have overseen the delivery of 217,134 new homes, equating to an average of 1,419 per month, while Labour housing ministers have seen a total of 136,931 homes built, or 878 per month.
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Gunga Din
11:06 AM, 19th December 2023, About 5 months ago
Completions during a minister's tenure doesn't seem a reasonable or fair measure. Can a minister in office for 4 months take credit for completions of dwellings which must have been initiated months previously, by a oredecessor?
(The above was somehow posted on the Lambeth Licensing scheme thread)
Freda Blogs
19:30 PM, 19th December 2023, About 5 months ago
What is this report intended to convey?
Housing development has a very long lead in time taking into account site acquisition, planning, funding, letting the construction contract etc - and then usually quite a long construction period.
The Housing minister in post at the time of completion is academic and most likely has made zero contribution to the delivery of the project.