The latest Government ministerial reshuffle has brought three new faces into the Department for Communities and Local Government. Housing Minister Mark Prisk has been replaced by Kris Hopkins, the Conservative MP for Keighley in Yorkshire. As well as housing he will handle planning policy and casework in relation to wind farms.
Don Foster, who has become Liberal Democrat chief whip and Comptroller of HM Household, has been replaced by Bristol West Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams who was a party spokesman on public health. Baroness Hanham has been replaced by Baroness Stowell, a former civil servant and one time head of corporate affairs at the BBC.
Elsewhere in Westminster, former DCLG minister Greg Clark has been appointed a minister of state for cities and constitution at the Cabinet Office and will attend Cabinet when policy on cities is discussed. Lib Dem peer Baroness Kramer has become a transport minister. She is a vocal opponent of further growth at Heathrow. Environment Minister Richard Benyon has been replaced by George Eustice, the Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth.
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