WOLVERHAMPTON, WEST MIDLANDS - 08:00AM GMT: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20TH 2021

Kashmire Hawker – Wolverhampton based member of the West Midlands Young Combined Authority (WMYCA) and the board’s Co-Portfolio Lead for Transport, releases the following statement, as a result of the announcement of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government confirming plans to open a Wolverhampton office and creating hundreds of jobs:

“I very warmly welcome the announcement made by Robert Jenrick this morning; (Saturday February 20th, 2021), that will see our ever growing City of Wolverhampton, will house THE FIRST Government Headquarters outside of London - for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)!

The very idea of devolution, is to see organisations – particularly including departments of Her Majesty’s Governments reach out, to areas like mine; which has an ever important mission, to transform itself for this generation. 



Supporting up to 500 new jobs and a world class base for our population, will prove exactly that, show that collectively the meaning of Levelling Up is meant by Ministers and crucially give Wulfrunians a taste of the awesome responsibilities, that our hard working Civil Servants have on their shoulders.

I give massive congratulations to City of Wolverhampton Council Leader Ian Brookfield, Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and Wolverhampton South West MP Stuart Anderson; for their successful and intense and collective cross-party lobbying and I very much look forward to seeing MHCLG’s arrival; which again underlines, what £4.4 Billion of investment currently online and in the planning, can further strengthen the rapid development; of one of Europe’s fastest growing city’s!”

ENDS