The new Construction Minister is Alan Mak MP, which makes him the 10th Construction Minister in the last 5 years lasting an average of just 8 months each (Upper Chart). Alan Mak replaces Nusrat Ghani, who was Construction Minister for 16 months after replacing Jackie Doyle-Price, who was Construction Minister for just 2 months and who replaced Lord Callanan, who was also only in place for 2 months.
The new Construction Minister is also the 15th Construction Minister in the last 10 years, averaging just 10 months each (although the average is heavily distorted by the first two of those 15 ministers staying considerably more than double the average, bringing the average otherwise up from 7 months).
Alan Mak is also the 24th Construction Minister in the last 20 years lasting 12 months each (Lower Chart) so it is clearly a persistent problem but, equally, it is a problem that has been getting considerably worse in recent years.
The constant churn of construction ministers leads to poor policy development and delivery, given the complexity of the construction industry and the time needed to fully understand it.
Plus, it also means that the government focuses more on a constant stream of public relations announcements (stating that it wants more homes and infrastructure) rather than actually delivering (more homes and better infrastructure).
In addition, the constant churn of construction ministers leads to endless councils, taskforces, hubs, groups and workstreams plus a constant stream of reports, reviews, strategies, plans, pipelines and playbooks but with little real improvement (although with lots of backslapping and self-congratulating plus congratulating from all the bluffers and chancers that are just happy to raise their own profile by being in the pointless meetings with the minister).
The constant churn in construction ministers also illustrates how little government and MPs with aspirations value the construction minister position as they see it merely as a stepping stone to a position that they consider more important. Given that construction is an industry that directly employs more than 2 million people in a construction supply chain that employs over 3 million people, as well as being critical to delivering more homes, Net Zero transition and the £700-775 billion infrastructure pipeline plus it provides the wider UK economy with economic and productivity growth. Construction deserves far better.
It is also worth noting the equally bad churn in housing ministers that I wrote about when the housing minister last changed (see link below):
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