Rachel Helen Maclean (née Cooke; born 3 October 1965) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Housing and Planning since 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament for Redditch in Worcestershire since 2017. Maclean served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, from September 2019 until February 2020. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed her Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in February 2020. She then became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from September 2021, before resigning from the position during the July 2022 government crisis. She then served under Liz Truss as Minister of State for Victims and Vulnerability from September to October 2022. She became a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party in November 2022, and in February 2023 she was appointed Housing Minister by Rishi Sunak. Prior to her political career, she worked for the bank HSBC and co-founded technology publishers Packt with her husband. From Wikipedia
