Lucy Frazer confirmed as housing minister

Lucy Frazer has been confirmed as the housing minister today, after days of speculation. 

The MP for South East Cambridgeshire will replace Lee Rowley, a parliamentary under secretary of state who is now understood to have the local government brief. 

Frazer, 50 from Yorkshire, has previously been a minister of state at the Department for Transport from 7 September to 26 October, and was financial secretary to the Treasury from 16 September to 7 September 2022. 

She has previously worked as a barrister in commercial law, becoming Queen’s Counsel 10 years ago, before entering politics and winning the South East Cambridgeshire seat in 2015.

Rowley originally appeared to have been re-appointed as the housing minister at the end of last month. The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities homepage updated with all the new ministers, which a spokesperson directed Housing Today to, listed Rowley as ’minister for housing’ and was only changed early last week.

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Frazer becomes the fifth MP to hold the housing minister brief in 2022, following Chris Pincher, Stuart Andrew, Marcus Jones and Rowley.