{"id":113459,"date":"2018-03-19T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=113459&preview=true&preview_id=113459"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:39:51","slug":"political-updates-19-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-19-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 19 March 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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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiona Pollard\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Allan Lambert\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed as trustees of the\u00a0VisitEngland\u00a0<\/strong>board<\/p>\n

Rupert Gavin\u00a0<\/strong>has been reappointed as Chair of the\u00a0Historic Royal Palaces\u00a0<\/strong>board<\/p>\n

Sally Bolton\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as a member of the\u00a0UK Sport <\/strong>Board<\/p>\n

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

Alan Massey\u00a0<\/strong>will retire as Chief Executive of the\u00a0Maritime and Coastguard Agency\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Russell Aguis\u00a0<\/b>has been appointed as an independent member of the<\/span>\u00a0Justice Pension\u00a0<\/strong>Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Blencathra, Sue Hartley, Henry Robinson <\/b>and Marian Spain\u00a0<\/b>have been appointed to the board of\u00a0Natural England.\u00a0<\/strong>Catherine Dugmore\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as Chair of the\u00a0Audit, Risk, Assurance Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Conor Colgan, James Shouler , Richard Sparey <\/strong>and Steve Thompson\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed as Beef & Lamb<\/strong> sector board members\u00a0of\u00a0the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign and Commonweatlh Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rob Macaire\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iran,\u00a0<\/strong>replacing\u00a0Nicholas Hopton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Daniel Zeichner\u00a0<\/strong>has been added as a member of the\u00a0Petitions Committee,\u00a0<\/strong>replacing\u00a0Susan Elan Jones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Debbie Abrahams\u00a0<\/strong>has resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Margaret Greenwood <\/strong>has taken on the role on an interim basis<\/p>\n

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Adrian Cropton\u00a0<\/strong>will become\u00a0Auditor General for Wales\u00a0<\/strong>in July, replacing\u00a0Huw Vaughan Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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This week,\u00a0the European Parliament will hold committee meetings and group meetings in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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