{"id":106171,"date":"2017-08-21T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=106171&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=106171"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:31:39","slug":"political-updates-21st-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-21st-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 21st August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\" alt=\"Political-Updates-Logo-3\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-705x264.png 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-450x169.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-full hr-no-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/3b\/3c\/f2\/3b3cf2ebb2512bba3588c935619f2e71--british-government-british-invasion.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for uk government logo\" width=\"89\" height=\"73\" \/>\u00a0 Government Departments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graham Mather\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed has Non-Executive Director on the board of <strong>Ofcom<\/strong> at the\u00a0<strong>Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0<strong>Rob Shaw\u00a0<\/strong>as Chief Executive of\u00a0<strong>NHS Digital\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0<strong>Department of Health.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Duncan Wingham\u00a0<\/strong>was appointed as\u00a0<strong>Executive Chair Designate\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0<strong>Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/b6\/Conservative_logo_2006.svg\/1280px-Conservative_logo_2006.svg.png\" width=\"96\" height=\"75\" \/><strong>Conservative Party<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rob Semple<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Sharpe<\/strong> have been elected <strong>Chair<\/strong> and <strong>President<\/strong> of the <strong>National Conservative Convention.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tom Spillar, Pamela Hall <\/strong>and<strong> James Pearson <\/strong>have been elected as<strong> Vice-Presidents.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"house-of-commons-logo\" width=\"86\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>House of Commons<\/strong> is in recess. The House will return on <strong>Tuesday 5th September<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The <strong>House of Lords<\/strong> is in recess. The House will return on <strong>Tuesday 5th September.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Devolved Institutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96464 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"145\" height=\"118\" \/>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Scottish parliament is in recess until <strong>Tuesday 5 September.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as\u00a0<strong>Director\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0<strong>Office of the Advocate General for Scotland.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian Gordon\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as a\u00a0<strong>Reviewer\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0<strong>Judicial Complaints Reviewer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a class=\"lightbox-added alignnone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Welsh-Government-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-96465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Welsh-Government-Logo.png\" alt=\"welsh-government-logo\" width=\"113\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Welsh Assembly<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Welsh Assembly is in recess until <strong>Monday 18 September.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4b\/Northern-ireland-assembly.png\" width=\"118\" height=\"105\" \/>Northern Irish Assembly<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gabriel Cooney<\/strong> has had his appointment as <strong>Chair<\/strong> of the <strong>Historic Monuments Council<\/strong>\u00a0at the <strong>Department for Communities\u00a0<\/strong>extended, whilst <strong>William Darby<\/strong>, <strong>Kate Laverty<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Witchell\u00a0<\/strong>have had their memberships extended.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geraldine Donaghy<\/strong>\u00a0has had her appointment as\u00a0<strong>Commissioner\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0<strong>Charity Commission<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0<strong>Department for Communities\u00a0<\/strong>extended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96459 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/European-Parliament-Logo.png\" alt=\"european-parliament-logo\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The European Parliament returns from recess today. During this week, MEPs will undertake activities outside the Parliament. They work either in their constituency in their home country, where they have the opportunity to interact with their electorate, or in Parliamentary delegations, responsible for maintaining relations with non-EU countries.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":99279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124323,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106171\/revisions\/124323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}