{"id":120349,"date":"2019-01-28T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=120349&preview=true&preview_id=120349"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:41:26","slug":"political-updates-28-january-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-28-january-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 28 January 2019"},"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<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Andrew Higgins<\/strong>, Elisabeth Davies<\/strong>, Martin Barnes<\/strong>, Nick Hanning<\/strong> and Rhodri Williams<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Civil Justice Council (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Bill Dickson<\/strong>, David Lyall<\/strong> and Peter Judge<\/strong> have been appointed to the board of the Marine Management Organisation (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Jil Matheson<\/strong> and Jane Sawyers<\/strong> have been appointed to the board of the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ellie Simmonds<\/strong>, Lyndsey Jackson<\/strong> and Nick Timothy<\/strong> have been named as Non-Executive Directors of the Committee for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nicholas Coleridge<\/strong> has been reappointed as Chair of the Victoria and Albert Museum, for a term of four years (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Charles Garrett<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic. He will take up this role in June 2019 (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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House of Commons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Courts<\/strong> has replaced Alex Chalk on the Justice Committee (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Sam Gyimah<\/strong> has replaced Neil O\u2019Brien on the Science and Technology Committee (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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House of Lords<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Reay<\/strong> was elected as a Conservative hereditary peer.<\/p>\n

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Scottish Government<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maureen Mallon<\/strong> has taken up the role of interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Charity Regulator, replacing David Robb from 28 January (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Conservative Party<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Caroline Preston<\/strong> has been appointed as Director of Communications (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

This week, MEPs are in Brussels for Committees and Groups, and a plenary session will be held on 30 and 31 January.<\/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\/120349"}],"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=120349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120349\/revisions\/120355"}],"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=120349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}