Steve Reed (politician)

The Right Honourable Steve Reed OBE MP
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 September 2025
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Angela Rayner
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office 5 July 2024 – 5 September 2025
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Steve Barclay
Succeeded by	Emma Reynolds
Member of Parliament for Streatham and Croydon North Croydon North (2012–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2012
Preceded by	Malcolm Wicks
Majority	15,603 (35.0%)
Shadow portfolios Shadow Secretary of State 2023–2024 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2021–2023 Justice 2020–2021 Communities and Local Government Shadow Minister 2019–2020 Children and Families 2016–2019 Civil Society 2015–2016 Local Government 2013–2015 Crime Prevention
Leader of Lambeth Council
In office 24 May 2006 – 29 November 2012
Preceded by	Peter Truesdale
Succeeded by	Lib Peck
Member of Lambeth Council for Brixton Hill Town Hall (1998–2002)
In office 7 May 1998 – 29 November 2012
Personal details
Born	Steven Mark Ward Reed St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Political party	Labour Co-op
Alma mater	University of Sheffield
Website	Official website

Steven Mark Ward Reed OBE (born 12 November 1963) is a British politician who has been the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since 2025. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2024 until 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Croydon North since a 2012 by-election.

He was Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from 2021 to 2023. Before his election to Parliament, he was leader of Lambeth London Borough Council from 2006 to 2012.

Reed is gay, and married his partner in July 2022.