{"id":116580,"date":"2018-07-23T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116580&preview=true&preview_id=116580"},"modified":"2018-07-23T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:21:10","slug":"political-updates-23rd-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-23rd-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 23rd July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Guto Bebb<\/strong> resigned as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State<\/strong> (Defence Procurement), at the Ministry of Defence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stuart Andrew<\/strong> appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State<\/strong> (Defence Procurement), at the Ministry of Defence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kelly Tolhurst<\/strong> appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State<\/strong> (Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility) at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

David Gann <\/strong>has been appointed as Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority <\/strong>at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Stategy. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Nicola Paines <\/strong>has been reappointed as a Commissioner of the Law Commission <\/strong>at the Ministry of Justice. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Paul Kenny <\/strong>has been appointed as a member of the board of the Health and Safety Executive <\/strong>at the Department for Work and Pensions. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

John Govett <\/strong>has been named as the first Chief Executive of the new Single Financial Guidance Body <\/strong>at the Department for Work and Pensions. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Professor Chris Godsen\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as the Society of Antiquaries<\/strong> trustee of the British Museum <\/strong>at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.<\/strong> (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

The House of Commons\u00a0<\/strong>will be in recess from 24th July<\/strong> to 4th September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Conservative<\/strong> Lord Freeman <\/strong>went on Leave of Absence on 16th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

Conservative Lord Bethell <\/strong>was elected as a new hereditary peer on 18th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

The House of Lords\u00a0<\/strong>will be in recess from 24th July<\/strong> to 4th September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Image\u00a0Scottish Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Janet Archer <\/strong>will stand down as Chief Executive <\/strong>of Creative Scotland.<\/strong> (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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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\/116580"}],"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=116580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116589,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116580\/revisions\/116589"}],"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=116580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}