The new housing secretary and housing minister have acted to re-establish communication between the government and the principal housebuilding industry trade body as one of their first acts in their new roles.

Housing Today understands that both secretary of state Greg Clark and minister of state Marcus Jones have spoken already to Home Builders Federation executive chair Stewart Baseley, re-establishing contact that had been broken off entirely during Michael Gove’s nine-month tenure in charge of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

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