{"id":114908,"date":"2018-05-14T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=114908&preview=true&preview_id=114908"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:01:17","slug":"political-updates-14th-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-14th-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 14th May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Image\u00a0 Government departments<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\n

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

Samuel Thomas<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s first ever resident Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Professor Lynn Gladden\u00a0<\/strong>has been selected as\u00a0Executive Chair\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.\u00a0<\/strong>She will replace\u00a0Philip Nelson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

Chris Nicholson\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as\u00a0Chair\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Animal and Plant Health Agency Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Steve Clinch\u00a0<\/strong>will retire as\u00a0Chief Inspector\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Marine Accident Investigation Branch<\/strong> at the end of June.<\/p>\n

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

Mark Carleton-Smith\u00a0<\/strong>will replace\u00a0Nick Carter\u00a0<\/strong>as\u00a0Chief of the General Staff\u00a0<\/strong>in June.<\/p>\n

Cabinet Office<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Antony Edwards-Stuart<\/strong> has replaced Stephen Sibler<\/strong> as the new Deputy Chair<\/strong> of the Security Vetting Appeals Panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Sue James\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Natalie Ceeney\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed to the Board of\u00a0Sport England.\u00a0<\/strong>Mohamed Elsarky\u00a0<\/strong>will be appointed on 29th October.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Mary Carter<\/strong> and Luke Corkill\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed as members of the\u00a0Prison Service Pay Review Body.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-Ministerial Departments<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Howard Cartlidge\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed\u00a0Senior Director, Cartels\u00a0<\/strong>at the Competition and Markets Authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

\"house-of-commons-logo\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

Heidi Alexander\u00a0<\/strong>has resigned as the Labour MP for\u00a0Lewisham East. <\/strong>A\u00a0by-election will be held on 14th June.<\/p>\n

Jack Brereton\u00a0<\/strong>has replaced\u00a0Martin Vickers\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of the\u00a0Transport Select Committee.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"european-parliament-logo\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

This week, the European Parliament will be in Brussels for Committee meetings.<\/em><\/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":423,"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\/114908"}],"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\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114912,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114908\/revisions\/114912"}],"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=114908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}