Lucy Frazer becomes this year's fifth housing minister

Feeling a little chilly today? That will be the draught caused by the endlessly spinning door to the housing minister's office which has been working overtime recently.

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Property Reporter
9th November 2022
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Christopher Pincher, Stuart Andrew, Marcus Jones, Lee Rowley and now, south-east Cambridgeshire MP Lucy Frazer, have all held the position in 2022, although there's no guarantee that by the time you finish reading this article Lucy will have left to join Matt Hancock in the jungle and we'll have another one.

Frazer, a former barrister, was a justice minister under Johnson's government and had two spells as solicitor general in 2019 and 2021. She was also previously transport minister from September 7 to October 26 and financial secretary to the Treasury for a year until September 2022.

She tweeted: "Building the homes we need and helping more people into home ownership are rightly important priorities for the Government. Delighted to be given the opportunity to contribute to this work as Minister for Housing & Planning @luhc. Thank you
@Lee4NED for your hard work in the role."

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