{"id":113872,"date":"2018-04-04T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=113872&preview=true&preview_id=113872"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:55:06","slug":"political-updates-3-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-3-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 3 April 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 Environment, Food\u00a0and\u00a0Rural Affairs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Conor Colgan<\/strong>, James Shouler<\/strong>, Richard Sparey<\/strong> and Steve Thompson<\/strong> have been appointed as board members of the Beef and Lamb sector<\/p>\n

Lord Blencathra<\/strong>, Henry Robinson<\/strong>, Marian Spain<\/strong> and Sue Hartley<\/strong> have been appointed to the board of Natural England.<\/p>\n

Catherine Dugmore<\/strong> has been appointed Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee.<\/p>\n

Department for Digital, Culture, Media\u00a0and Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Allan Lambert<\/strong> and Fiona Pollard<\/strong> have been appointed as\u00a0trustees of the\u00a0VisitEngland\u00a0Board for a term of 4 years, from 5 March 2018 to 6 March 2022.<\/p>\n

Rupert Gavin<\/strong> has been reappointed as Chair of Historic Royal Palaces until 2021.<\/p>\n

Sally Bolton<\/strong> has been appointed as a member of the board of UK Sport.<\/p>\n

Foreign\u00a0and Commonwealth Office<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rob Marcaire<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iran, succeeding Nicholas Hopton.<\/p>\n

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

Alan Massey<\/strong> has announced that he will retire from his position as Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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

Russell Aguis<\/strong> has been appointed as an independent member for two years.<\/p>\n

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

Daniel Zeichner<\/strong> has been appointed as member of the Petitions Committee, replacing Susan Elan Jones.<\/p>\n

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House of\u00a0Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lord Sanderson of Bowden<\/strong> retired on 29 March.<\/p>\n

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

This week, MEPs are carrying out\u00a0external parliamentary activities. There is no formal activity at the European Parliament.<\/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\/113872"}],"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=113872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120949,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113872\/revisions\/120949"}],"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=113872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}