{"id":48240,"date":"2026-10-06T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48240"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:33:38","slug":"new-chair-elected-by-the-housing-communities-and-local-government-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48240","title":{"rendered":"New Chair elected by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, has announced that Ms Abena Oppong-Asare MP has been elected Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, has announced that Ms Abena Oppong-Asare MP has been elected Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.&nbsp;&nbsp; She takes up her position as Chair with immediate effect and is elected to serve until the end of the Parliament. Six candidates were nominated for the role of Chair, triggering an election between:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rachel Blake<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonathan Brash<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naushabah Khan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms Abena Oppong-Asare<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alan Strickland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catherine West<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To read their supporting statements go to the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/committee\/17\/housing-communities-and-local-government-committee\/news\/217885\/ms-abena-oppongasare-elected-chair-of-the-housing-communities-and-local-government-committee\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, has announced that Ms Abena Oppong-Asare MP has been elected Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,969,1032],"class_list":["post-48240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-housing","tag-mhclg","tag-parliament-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48241,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions\/48241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}