{"id":111073,"date":"2017-12-18T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=111073&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=111073"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:38:35","slug":"political-updates-18th-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-18th-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 18th December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<h3><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><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Department for\u00a0Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hilary Florek has been appointed Chair of the Marine Management Organisation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Department\u00a0for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sarah Bedwell has been appointed Certification Officer, replacing Gerard Walker. She will take up this role in January<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jane Burgess, Michael Cutting, Paul Dollman, Robin Mason, Timothy Sawyer, Derek Ridyard and Tim Frazer have been appointed members<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Department\u00a0for\u00a0Digital, Culture, Media and Sport<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lord Burns has been appointed Chair of Ofcom from January<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sandra Dinneen, Patrick Newberry, Richard Upton, Susie Thornberry and Paul Farmer have been appointed Commissioners of Historic England<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Anne Marie Morris has had the Conservative Party Whip restored.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry McCarthy has been appointed as a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, replacing Jo Platt.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Platt has been appointed as a member of the Communities and Local Government Committee.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo-e1512393021608.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"106\" height=\"104\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Baroness Sharples retired on 18th December.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Lipsey, previously Labour, now sits as non-affiliated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This week, the European Parliament\u00a0will be carrying out external parliamentary activities.<\/p>\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":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\/111073"}],"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=111073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111077,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111073\/revisions\/111077"}],"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=111073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}