{"id":116727,"date":"2018-07-30T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116727&preview=true&preview_id=116727"},"modified":"2020-03-10T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:52:23","slug":"political-updates-30th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-30th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 30th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mark Spencer\u00a0<\/strong>has been promoted to Comptroller of HM Household.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Stephenson<\/strong>\u00a0has been promoted to Vice Chamberlain of HM Household.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Freer<\/strong>\u00a0has been promoted to Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iain Stewart, Michelle Donelan<\/strong> and Jeremy Quin<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed Assistant Government Whips.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Shailesh Vara\u00a0<\/strong>has been promoted to\u00a0Minister of State\u00a0<\/strong>at the Northern Ireland Office.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shona Dunn\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as\u00a0Second Permanent\u00a0Secretary\u00a0<\/b>at the\u00a0Home Office.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mims Davies\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State\u00a0<\/strong>at the Wales Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Worthington<\/strong> has been appointed as independent HS2 Construction Commissioner\u00a0<\/strong>at the Department for Transport.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Robinson<\/strong> has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer<\/strong> of High Speed 2 Ltd<\/strong> at the Department for Transport<\/strong>. Michael Bradley<\/strong> has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer<\/strong>.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Gosden\u00a0<\/strong>has been named as the \u00a0Society of Antiquaries trustee of the British Museum<\/strong> at the\u00a0Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Hill\u00a0<\/strong>will replace\u00a0Alison Saunders\u00a0<\/strong>as\u00a0Director of Public Prosecutions\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Crown Prosecution Service.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Clive Efford\u00a0<\/strong>has replaced\u00a0Christian Matheson\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of the\u00a0Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kate Green\u00a0<\/strong>has replaced\u00a0Naz Shah\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of the\u00a0Home Affairs Select Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Teresa Pearce<\/strong> have replaced\u00a0Mike Amesbury\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jo Platt\u00a0<\/strong>as members of the\u00a0Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Caulfield\u00a0<\/strong>has replaced\u00a0Jack Lopresti\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of the\u00a0Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Whately\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as the\u00a0Conservative Party Vice-Chair for Women.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom Pursglove\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as the\u00a0Conservative Party Vice-Chair for Youth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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\"Image\u00a0National Assembly for Wales<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Simon Thomas\u00a0<\/strong>has resigned as Plaid Cymru AM for Mid and West Wales.<\/strong><\/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\/116727"}],"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=116727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128918,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727\/revisions\/128918"}],"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=116727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}