{"id":118019,"date":"2018-10-01T13:54:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=118019&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=118019"},"modified":"2020-03-10T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:48:24","slug":"political-updates-01-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-01-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 01 October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/botw-pd.s3.amazonaws.com\/styles\/logo-thumbnail\/s3\/0023\/1707\/brand.gif?itok=Cw-jEQ5H\" alt=\"Image result for uk gov logo\" width=\"131\" height=\"131\" \/>Government departments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sarah Staniforth, Steven Underwood, Iain McIntosh, Judith Donovan, Professor Ajit Lalvani, Sir Peter Hendy, Jo Foster<\/strong> and <strong>Dr Hannah Fry<\/strong> have been appointed to the <strong>Science Museum Group Board<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/trustees-appointed-to-the-science-museum-group\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiona Butcher, Professor Julian Dowdeswell<\/strong> and <strong>Dr Helen Czerski<\/strong> have respectively been appointed as <strong>Legal, Academic and Astronomer Trustees of the Royal Museums Greenwich<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/three-new-trustees-appointed-to-the-royal-museums-greenwich\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helen Pitcher<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the <strong>Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)<\/strong> at the Ministry of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/appointment-of-the-chair-of-the-criminal-cases-review-commission\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Spurr<\/strong> has announced that he will be leaving his role as Chief Executive of <strong>Her Majesty&#8217;s Prison and Probation Service<\/strong> at the Ministry of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/michael-spurr-leaving-role-as-chief-executive-of-hmpps\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caroline Corby<\/strong> has been announced as the new Chair of the <strong>Parole Board<\/strong> at the Ministry of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-chair-of-the-parole-board-announced\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ms Gisela Stuart<\/strong> has been appointed Chair of <strong>Wilton Park <\/strong>at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/fco-announce-new-chair-of-wilton-park\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin Coleman<\/strong> has been appointed as an Inquiry Chair and Panel Chair of the <strong>Competitions and Markets Authority panel<\/strong>. <strong>Kirstin Baker<\/strong> has been appointed as a further inquiry Chair (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-appointments-to-competition-and-markets-authority-confirmed\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin Cave<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of <strong>Ofgem<\/strong> at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/martin-cave-confirmed-as-ofgem-chair\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vegepaclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/House-of-Commons-logo.png\" alt=\"Image result for house of commons logo\" width=\"130\" height=\"161\" \/>House of Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons returns from recess Tuesday 9th October.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativehome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-18-at-08.23.29.png\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"145\" height=\"142\" \/>House of Lords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Lords returns from recess on Tuesday 9th October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/cache\/3176__500x550_plaid_cymru_logo.png\" alt=\"Image result for plaid cymru logo\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" \/>\u00a0Plaid Cymru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Price<\/strong> has replaced <strong>Leanne Wood<\/strong> as <strong>leader of<\/strong> <strong>Plaid Cymru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.opfs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/funder_scottish-govenment-260x238.png\" alt=\"Image result for scottish government\" width=\"141\" height=\"129\" \/><strong>Scottish Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Andrew Millar <\/strong>has been appointed as the Scottish Government&#8217;s Chief Scientific Adviser for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/downloadcentre\/sites\/europarl.europa.eu.downloadcentre\/files\/styles\/epa_category_image\/public\/media\/EP%20logo%20RGB_EN_0.png?itok=aOz0KQXC\" alt=\"Image result for european parliament logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"142\" \/>European Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, the European Parliament will be in Strasbourg for Plenary sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\/118019"}],"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=118019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128907,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118019\/revisions\/128907"}],"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=118019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}