Former housing minister joins SNG amid senior board changes

He introduced the Social Housing Regulation Bill and has worked closely with housing providers and government throughout his career, both in ministerial office and in senior sector roles.

Mr Hughes now runs a housing consultancy advising organisations across the sector, and is described as someone with “significant experience of housing policy, regulation and governance”.

Dr Moncrieffe-Newman is a senior people and governance leader, bringing extensive experience from highly regulated sectors and organisations including the NHS, the BBC, higher education and local government. 

She is currently chief people officer at City St George’s, University of London, and is committed to championing people, culture and equality in the workplace.

Alongside her role as a board member, Dr Moncrieffe-Newman has been appointed chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee – a role she will take on at the end of July when the committee’s current chair, Angela Williams, stands down at the end of her permitted board tenure.  

Ms Arrowsmith brings more than 30 years’ experience in executive housing leadership, with deep expertise in governance, regulation and customer strategies.

The 85,000-home housing association said she is “widely recognised for leading organisations through complex operating environments and improvement programmes, including interim chief executive roles at Saffron Housing Trust and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing”.  

Paul Massara, chair of SNG, said: “I am delighted to welcome Marcelle, Eddie and Yvonne to the SNG board.

“They bring deep expertise across governance, housing, regulation and central and local government and I am confident they will make a strong contribution to SNG’s continued success as we deliver one of the sector’s largest pipelines of new homes.

“As we prepare to launch our new corporate plan later this year, their insight and leadership will help ensure SNG is well placed to deliver our ambitions for customers and create thriving communities over generations.”