Building Safety Minister

The Building Safety Minister (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Local Growth and Building Safety) was part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), in July 2024 DLUHC was renamed back to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

In September, 2025 following the departure of Angela Rayner and the subsequent government reshuffle with various roles updated this role has been described as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy). As of 16 September the Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy is named as Samatha Dixon, replacing Alex Norris who has move dto the moved to the Home Office.

Previously on 1 April 2025 the ministerial responsibility for all fire functions moved from the Home Office to MHCLG. The change was considered by the government as delivering on a key recommendation that came from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report, which advised that fire and building safety should be overseen by a single department which included the role commonly referred to as Building Safety Minister, then Minister of Building Safety and Local Growth, and as of September 2025 referred to as Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy)

The list of ministerial responsibilities published by the cabinet office in September 2025 include the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy) Samantha Dixon MBE MP the responsibilities are listed as including:

Building safety, regulations, Building Safety Regulator and remediation
Net Zero and energy efficiency
Grenfell Inquiry response
Grenfell Community, Tower and Memorial
Fire policy and operations
Resilience, recovery, and emergencies
Elections policy
Planning casework

The list of ministerial responsibilities published by the cabinet office in March 2025 included the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Local Growth and Building Safety) whom was at the time named as Alex Norris MP. The responsibilities of the Minister for Building Safety and Local Growth Minister originally included:

Building safety, regulations, Building Safety Regulator and remediation
Grenfell Inquiry response
Grenfell Community, Tower and Memorial
Resilience, recovery, and emergencies
Local and regional growth, including Local Growth Plans, Community Ownership, and future of legacy funding streams
High streets and towns
Investment Zones and Freeports

Previous responsibilities of the Building Safety Minister included:

Building safety programme
Grenfell recovery and rehousing
Grenfell public inquiry
Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme
Tackling leasehold and freehold abuses
Local resilience and emergencies (including winter preparedness (Transition, Covid, HGVs))
Planning casework
Lords Minister for the department’s work

The position of Building Safety Minister was held by Alex Norris MP who was appointed on 9 July 2024. He was preceded by Rushanara Ali who resigned following attendance at the Franco-British Colloque, a conference sponsored by Saint-Gobain, the majority owner of Celotex which was criticised by the Grenfell Inquiry.

Norris is MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley and was named minister for democracy and local growth after the 2024 election.

Find out more at: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--114. and https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state--289