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PM hosts first Housing Implementation Taskforce meeting
The first meeting of the Housing Implementation Taskforce has been chaired by Prime Minister Theresa May. A cross-Government working group, the meet was attended by the Chancellor, the Housing Secretary, the Transport Secretary, and several other Cabinet Ministers, among others.
The notable exception to the attendees was housing minister Dominic Raab. Raab has professed on social media however that he was attending a “Commons Urgent Question of fire safety,” which clashed and required him to respond in Parliament. A Downing Street spokesperson described the proceedings, saying: “[Theresa May] stressed the integral role all Government departments have in helping to fix the broken housing market and deliver 300,000 additional homes by the mid-2020s.”
According to the spokesperson, the task force “discussed the steps Government has
already taken, including further investment at the Budget, planning reform, releasing land faster, the Housing White Paper and Building more affordable housing.” Also emphasised was the “key role of Homes England in driving forward change,” along with the supply of new housing, public sector land sales, land banking, housebuilding skills, and building the infrastructure necessary to construct new housing developments.”
Theresa May was also reported to have reiterated that “a step change was needed right across Government, and that all departments needed to think creatively about how they can contribute to building the homes the country needs.” Attendees included:
• Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Rt Hon David Lidington CBE MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Rt Hon Damian Hinds, Secretary of State for Education
• Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Rt Hon Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Transport
• Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence
• Baroness Buscombe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions
• Oliver Dowden CBE MP, Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet
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