Alok Sharma MP

Alok Sharma MP

Minister of State for Housing and Planning

Alok Sharma was appointed Minister of State for Housing and Planning at the Department for Communities and Local Government in June 2017. He was elected Conservative MP for Reading West in May 2010.


Alok Sharma previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific from July 2016 to June 2017. Alok has also served as a member of the Commons Treasury select committee, a member of the Commons Science and Technology select committee, and a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Treasury. He also served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, the former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who had overall responsibility for the Cabinet Office.