Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is central to the mission-driven government, from fixing the foundations of an affordable home to handing power back to communities and rebuilding local governments. MHCLG is a ministerial department, supported by 19 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-local-government

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
  Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Luke Hall MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government)
• The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
• Eddie Hughes MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Rough Sleeping & Housing)
• Lord Stephen Greenhalgh
  Minister of State (Minister for Building Safety and Communities)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Create an independent clean air monitoring system for incinerators
  Open from Thursday 14th August 2025 to Saturday 14th February 2026
  1,250 signatures

• Ban churches from being given a use as another religious building
  Open from Monday 11th August 2025 to Wednesday 11th February 2026
  928 signatures

• Ban credit checks and requiring tenant income to be 30x monthly rent
  Open from Thursday 7th August 2025 to Saturday 7th February 2026
  53 signatures

• Fund councils to construct Autism and Special Needs Friendly Playgrounds
  Open from Wednesday 6th August 2025 to Friday 6th February 2026
  82 signatures

• Fund councils to subsidise more mobility items for disabled and older people
  Open from Wednesday 6th August 2025 to Friday 6th February 2026
  39 signatures

• Abolish the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  6,557 signatures

• Improve regulation of letting agents including new statutory regulator
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  164 signatures

• Require parents to pay child maintenance if the child is in Local Authority Care
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  44 signatures

• Implement policies to help provide affordable housing for all
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  54 signatures

• Require & fund local councils to provide public toilets
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  232 signatures

• Amend the Party Wall Act 1996 to give adjoining owners stronger legal protection
  Open from Monday 4th August 2025 to Wednesday 4th February 2026
  21 signatures

• Don't lower the voting age to 16
  Open from Friday 1st August 2025 to Sunday 1st February 2026
  2,420 signatures

• We call for a referendum before extending voting rights to 16 & 17-year-olds
  Open from Friday 1st August 2025 to Sunday 1st February 2026
  3,623 signatures

• New scheme for all homes to be fitted with air conditioning
  Open from Tuesday 29th July 2025 to Thursday 29th January 2026
  31 signatures

• Fund work on pavements to make them more disabled friendly
  Open from Monday 28th July 2025 to Wednesday 28th January 2026
  139 signatures

• Reform social housing allocation with national, transparent, AI-assisted system
  Open from Monday 28th July 2025 to Wednesday 28th January 2026
  21 signatures

• Require freeholders and councils to allow leaseholders to install air con
  Open from Monday 28th July 2025 to Wednesday 28th January 2026
  27 signatures

• Review high street regeneration & local community empowerment
  Open from Thursday 24th July 2025 to Saturday 24th January 2026
  69 signatures

• Review support and payment for councillors in England
  Open from Wednesday 23rd July 2025 to Friday 23rd January 2026
  121 signatures

• Create a UK-Wide Regional Equity Strategy to Tackle Systemic Inequality by 2030
  Open from Friday 18th July 2025 to Sunday 18th January 2026
  59 signatures

• Create a regulatory body to regulate and oversee estate management companies
  Open from Friday 11th July 2025 to Sunday 11th January 2026
  419 signatures

• Make it Law for Water Companies to Object When Sewage Systems Are Over Capacity
  Open from Thursday 10th July 2025 to Saturday 10th January 2026
  5,136 signatures

• Abolish and replace the Local Government Pension Scheme
  Open from Thursday 10th July 2025 to Saturday 10th January 2026
  279 signatures

• Change priority for social housing guidance to make all veterans eligible
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  104 signatures

• Require key worker housing eligibility to include frontline charity workers
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  204 signatures

• New Right to Buy discounts, social housing replacement and stricter resale rules
  Open from Monday 7th July 2025 to Wednesday 7th January 2026
  99 signatures

• Change Council Tax so its based on how many occupants live in the household
  Open from Wednesday 2nd July 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026
  117 signatures

• Review Shared Ownership Salary Cap
  Open from Wednesday 2nd July 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026
  23 signatures

• Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
  Open from Monday 30th June 2025 to Tuesday 30th December 2025
  10,486 signatures

• Allow letting agents to access tenants' criminal records before accepting
  Open from Monday 30th June 2025 to Tuesday 30th December 2025
  60 signatures

• Abolish Estate management fees on New build estates for freehold properties
  Open from Tuesday 24th June 2025 to Wednesday 24th December 2025
  2,330 signatures

• Abolish Section 21 'no-fault' evictions with immediate effect
  Open from Tuesday 24th June 2025 to Wednesday 24th December 2025
  51 signatures

• Replace First-Past-The-Post with Single Transferrable Vote & Alternative Vote
  Open from Monday 23rd June 2025 to Tuesday 23rd December 2025
  509 signatures

• Add a “None of the above” option to ballot papers for all elections
  Open from Friday 20th June 2025 to Saturday 20th December 2025
  219 signatures

• Only UK residents who pay or have paid PAYE can vote in general elections
  Open from Friday 20th June 2025 to Saturday 20th December 2025
  568 signatures

• Provide funding so refuge spaces are free for all
  Open from Tuesday 10th June 2025 to Wednesday 10th December 2025
  26 signatures

• Require political adverts to be truthful & factually accurate
  Open from Friday 6th June 2025 to Saturday 6th December 2025
  150 signatures

• Require businesses to give workers time off on general election days
  Open from Friday 6th June 2025 to Saturday 6th December 2025
  70 signatures

• Reintroduce the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme for First-Time Buyers
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  29 signatures

• Increase funding to build more council housing
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  86 signatures

• Impose rent caps in major cities to stop rent hikes by landlords
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  80 signatures

• Require councils to pause council tax bills for three months
  Open from Wednesday 4th June 2025 to Thursday 4th December 2025
  838 signatures

• Establish a cap on Homes of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) in stressed communities
  Open from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 to Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  323 signatures

• Require all social housing flats to have a personal balcony/garden
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  52 signatures

• Ban insured deposit protection schemes
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  37 signatures

• Require all new homes to include a swift brick
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  246 signatures

• Introduce a National Children's Day for VE day on 8th May and fund celebrations
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  43 signatures

• Require local authorities to allow free parking: minimum 15 mins on public roads
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  34 signatures

• Ban councils considering PIP/DLA as income for council tax reduction schemes
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  175 signatures

• Require all public buildings to display the Union Jack flag
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  525 signatures

• Give trans people legal access to single-sex spaces of their acquired gender
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  2,409 signatures

• Review transparency around additional charges to mortgages
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  20 signatures

• Change the term ‘shared ownership’ to ‘assured tenancy leasing’
  Open from Wednesday 21st May 2025 to Friday 21st November 2025
  19 signatures

• Fund off-road cycle paths linking every village, town and city in the country
  Open from Tuesday 20th May 2025 to Thursday 20th November 2025
  53 signatures

• Bring back full Right to buy discount & give notice of future changes
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  507 signatures

• Ban private limited companies from owning residential housing
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  95 signatures

• Require local authorities to add "unmet needs" as a Child Protection category
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  37 signatures

• Require social housing landlords to ensure properties have a C EPC rating
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  387 signatures

• Introduce a legal requirement for transgender and non-binary only spaces
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  103 signatures

• Review Commercial leases, introduce a standard lease document & duty of care
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  18 signatures

• Create letterboxes for the homeless & advertise support available
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  46 signatures

• Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  42,125 signatures

• Make Addressing the Climate Emergency a Statutory duty for Councils
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  1,424 signatures

• Stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 to Protect Nature
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  14,143 signatures

• Political parties to be funded only by membership fees and a government grant
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  418 signatures

• Make existing register include all political donations & system tracing funding
  Open from Monday 12th May 2025 to Wednesday 12th November 2025
  39 signatures

• Grant the vote for London Mayor to all UK Residents
  Open from Friday 9th May 2025 to Sunday 9th November 2025
  70,907 signatures

• Mandate the removal of charging order on private property after 12 years
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  13 signatures

• Create a new legal designation for political parties as distinct legal entities
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  22 signatures

• Exempt properties rented by three unrelated people from HMO rules
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  27 signatures

• Prohibit the wearing of all full-face coverings in public spaces
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  71,133 signatures

• Require Local Authorities to provide more notice for care funding rates
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  432 signatures

• Introduce increased regulation of letting agents
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  61 signatures

• Review rules on & launch an inquiry into the removal of asbestos
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  71 signatures

• Revoke The Selective Licensing of Houses (Additional Conditions) Order 2015
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  998 signatures

• Ban housebuilding in the countryside
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  79 signatures

• Provide free education transport for children aged 16-19 with EHCPs
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  504 signatures

• Require local authorities to freeze Council Tax at current levels
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  55 signatures

• Start funding and stop cutting resources for Youth services
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  40 signatures

• Require local authorities to fast track Blue Badges for seriously ill children
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  158 signatures

• Daisy Companion Law: Give emotional support animals equal status to service dogs
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  271 signatures

• Prohibit and stop any building on our Green Belt Land
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  8,374 signatures

• Ban councils charging council tax on secondary properties
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  80 signatures

• Ban town centre management companies and rangers
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  16 signatures

• Ensure the renewal of LPWGS beyond March 2026 without any caps
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  210 signatures

• Ban guarantor policies for buying or renting homes
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  29 signatures

• Implement a 5% Cap on Annual Council Tax Increases by Town and Parish Councils
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  79 signatures

• Provide funding on the improvement on social housing conditions.
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  48 signatures

• Introduce consequences for local authorities that ignore antisocial behaviour
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  62 signatures

• Ban all mid-terrace houses from becoming HMOs
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  199 signatures

• Fund Memorial for Gaza Children Honouring Peace, Compassion
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  2,159 signatures

• Make an agreed offer on a property legally binding
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  102 signatures

• Require property management & insurance companies to pay cladding repair costs
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Fund dedicated vape bins so vapes don't lie on the ground
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  20 signatures

• Create a set of standards for private parking firms that ensure transparency
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  64 signatures

• Introduce 18 year residency and English language requirements to vote in general
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  341 signatures

• Review and strengthen enforcement of housing and equality laws in rental sector
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  28 signatures

• Strengthen consumer protections on new build homes
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  981 signatures

• Establish an electoral process and MP to represent UK Overseas Citizens
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  701 signatures

• Create a national process to ensure Mobile Homes Legislation is fully enforced
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  24 signatures

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