{"id":110703,"date":"2017-12-04T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=110703&preview=true&preview_id=110703"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:59:25","slug":"political-updates-4th-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-4th-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 4th December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Redmon has been appointed as Chair of the Central Arbitration Committee, replacing Michael Burton.<\/p>\n

Department of Health<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kate Lampard, Sue Bailey, Ron Kerr, Michael Mire and Mike Richards have been appointed as Non-Executive Directors of the board.<\/p>\n

Ian Dalton has been appointed as Chief Executive of NHS Improvement.<\/p>\n

Department for Work and Pensions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

David Chrimes and Philip Jones have been appointed and Seyi Obakin has been reappointed\u00a0as members.<\/p>\n

Department for Transport<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Baulch-Jones\u00a0has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency.<\/p>\n

Department for Culture, Digital, Media and Sport<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

David Knott has been appointed Director of the Office for Civil Society.<\/p>\n

Ministry of Justice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anne Rafferty\u00a0has been appointed as a Senior Judicial Commissioner and Vice-Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission.<\/p>\n

Ministry of Defence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gary Aitkenhead has been appointed Chief Executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.<\/p>\n

HM Revenue & Customs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Harra\u00a0will become the Second Permanent Secretary in January 2018.<\/p>\n

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House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Stephen McPartland has been elected Chair of the Regulatory Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

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House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lord Steyn (Crossbench, life peer) passed away on 28th November.<\/p>\n

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  • Alasdair Christie, James Brander and Sarah Compton-Bishop have been appointed members of Highland NHS Board.<\/li>\n
  • Ailsa Henderson has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.<\/li>\n
  • Ainsley Mann, Wendy Alexander, Martyn O\u2019Reilly and Nick Maclean have been appointed as trade envoys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    • Clare Haughey has been named Convener of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee.<\/li>\n
    • Clare Adamson has been named Convener of the Social Security Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Liberal Democrats<\/h3>\n

      Nick Harvey has been appointed Chief Executive of the party.<\/p>\n

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      European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n

      This week, the European Parliament\u00a0will be holding political group and committee meetings in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":109831,"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\/110703"}],"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\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110898,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110703\/revisions\/110898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}