Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his departmental board last met; and when his Department plans to publish minutes of board meetings held since December 2016.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities was established in September 2021, with the Machinery of Government change transfer of functions completing in December. The Secretary of State has been focusing on his priorities since setting up the new department, and the first Ministerial Board meeting is due to take place in January 2022. Governance arrangements, including publication of minutes of meetings, will be reviewed by the Board as part of the new department's governance framework and published in the usual way.