Inside Housing – Home – Kemi Badenoch appoints new shadow housing secretary

News05.11.24by Grainne CuffeNew Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed a shadow housing secretary.Kevin Hollinrake moves on from his role as shadow secretary of state for business and tradeSharelinesKemi Badenoch appoints new shadow housing secretary #UKhousing Hunters estate agency co-founder Kevin Hollinrake will serve in the role, moving from his near three-month stint as shadow secretary of state for business and trade. 
North Yorkshire-born Mr Hollinrake has been MP for Thirsk and Malton since 2015. He was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now Business and Trade) in October 2022, staying in the role until March 2024. 
As the minister for postal affairs, he was responsible for government oversight of the Post Office. 
Mr Hollinrake served as minister of state for enterprise, markets and small business from February 2023 to March 2024.  He was appointed shadow secretary for business and trade in July, before Ms Badenoch’s cabinet shadow cabinet was announced in November.
In a post on X, he said was “very sad” to be leaving his post “but also very much looking forward to the new challenges” in his new role.
“All policy areas I’m very passionate about, not least making it much easier to get on the housing ladder. My thanks to Kemi Badenoch for entrusting me with this very important brief,” he added.
Mr Hollinrake, who is a landlord, was one of 72 MPs who voted down an amendment to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 in 2016 that obliged landlords to make their homes fit for human habitation.
He sat on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee between 2017 and 2019. Sign up for our regulation and legal newsletter



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