Minister for Faith and Communities (United Kingdom)

The Minister for Faith and Communities is a junior position in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in the British government. It is currently held by Lord Greenhalgh, who took the office on 18 March 2020.

Minister of State for Building Safety and Communities
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent The Lord Greenhalgh since 18 March 2020
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Website	www.gov.uk/dclg

Responsibilities

The Minister's responsibilities include:

• Building Safety Programme
• Grenfell recovery and public inquiry
• Resilience and Emergencies Minister, including transformation and non-Covid/Transition winter response (e.g. flooding)
• leasehold and freehold abuses
• faith
• communities
• Holocaust Memorial
• fire and rescue services
• fire and building safety

Ministers for Faith and Communities

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Notes
	The Baroness Warsi		4 September 2012	5 August 2014	Conservative	Minister of State for Faith and Communities
	Eric Pickles		6 August 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative	Minister of State for Faith
	Vacant		11 May 2015	17 July 2016
	The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth		17 July 2016	16 July 2019	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Faith
	The Viscount Younger of Leckie		27 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Faith and Communities
	The Lord Greenhalgh		18 March 2020	Incumbent	Conservative	Minister of State for Building Safety and Communities

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