{"id":111494,"date":"2018-01-15T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=111494&preview=true&preview_id=111494"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:36:30","slug":"political-updates-15th-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-15th-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 15th January 2018"},"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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Cabinet Office<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Chloe Smith<\/strong> is now Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office (she was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Assistant Government Whip).<\/p>\n

Oliver Dowden<\/strong> has been appointed\u00a0Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office (first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

HM Treasury<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

John Glen<\/strong> is now Economic Secretary to the Treasury (he was previously Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport).<\/p>\n

Robert Jenrick<\/strong> has been appointed Exchequer Secretary (first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Department\u00a0for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Griffiths<\/strong> has been appointed Minister of State for Small Business (he was previously a Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury).<\/p>\n

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

Sam Gyimah<\/strong>, MP for East Surrey, is taking over from Jo Johnson as\u00a0a joint Minister for Higher Education at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Education (he was previously Minister of State for Prisons and Probation).<\/p>\n

Nadhim Zahawi<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Department for\u00a0Health\u00a0& Social Care<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Caroline Dinenage<\/strong> has been appointed as\u00a0Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0(she was previously Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance at the Department for Work and Pensions).<\/p>\n

Stephen Barclay<\/strong> has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (he was previously Economic Secretary to the Treasury).<\/p>\n

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

Rory Stewart<\/strong> is now Minister of State for the Ministry of Justice (he was previously joint Minister of State for the Department for International Development and Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).<\/p>\n

Lucy Frazer<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0(first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

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

Guto Bebb<\/strong> is now Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (he was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Wales Office and a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury).<\/p>\n

Ministry of Housing, Communities\u00a0& Local Government<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heather Wheeler<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (she was previously Government Whip, Junior Lord of the Treasury).<\/p>\n

Dominic Raab<\/strong> has replaced Alok Sharma as Minister of State for Housing (he was previously Minister of State for Human Rights at the Ministry of Justice).<\/p>\n

Rishi Sunak<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0(first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Department\u00a0for\u00a0Digital, Culture, Media\u00a0& Sport<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Margot James<\/strong> has been appointed Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries (she was previously Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).<\/p>\n

Michael Ellis<\/strong> has been appointed Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism (he was previously Assistant Government Whip at the Treasury).<\/p>\n

Department for International Trade<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Graham Stuart<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (he was previously Assistant Government Whip at the Treasury).<\/p>\n

Department\u00a0for Work and Pensions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kit Malthouse<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0(first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Alok Sharma<\/strong> is now Minister of State for Employment (he was previously Minister for Housing).<\/p>\n

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

Jo Johnson<\/strong> is now Minister of State for Transport and Minister of State for London (he was previously Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation at the Department for Education).<\/p>\n

Nusrat Ghani<\/strong> has been appointed\u00a0Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Assistant Government Whip (first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Department for International Development and\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Foreign & Commonwealth Office<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Harriet Baldwin<\/strong> has taken over Rory Stewart’s role as Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development (she was previously Minister of State for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence).<\/p>\n

Department for Exiting the European Union<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Suella Fernandes<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0(first ministerial position).<\/p>\n

Office of the Secretary of State for Wales<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Stuart Andrew<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary of State for Wales (he was previously Assistant Government Whip at the Treasury).<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland\u00a0Office<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Shailesh Vara<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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

Sinn Fein’s Barry McElduff, MP for West Tyrone, resigned on 15th January. McElduff announced\u00a0his resignation as a result of the controversy surrounding the video he posted on Twitter on the anniversary of the Kingmills massacre.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Clinton-Davis (Labour, Life Peer) retired on 10th January.<\/p>\n

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

This week, the European Parliament is in plenary session in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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