{"id":121491,"date":"2019-03-11T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=121491&preview=true&preview_id=121491"},"modified":"2019-03-11T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:45:52","slug":"political-updates-5-march-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-5-march-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 11 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Robert Goodwill<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Minister of State for\u00a0Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Clare Moriarty<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0Philip Rycroft<\/strong>\u00a0as Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union at the end of March (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Tamara Finkelstein<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0Clare Moriarty<\/strong>\u00a0as Permanent Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at the end of March, this will be on an interim basis (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Tim Eggar<\/strong>\u00a0has been\u00a0appointed\u00a0as Chair of the Oil and Gas Authority (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Richard Lloyd<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Non-Executive Director at the Financial Conduct Authority (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Baroness Hogg<\/strong>\u00a0has been reappointed\u00a0Non-Executive Director at the Financial Conduct Authority (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Amelia Fletcher<\/strong>\u00a0has had her term as Non-Executive Director at the Financial Conduct Authority extended (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Carolyn Battersby<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed the shareholder appointed Non-Executive Director of Highways England (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Roger Lowe<\/strong>\u00a0has been reappointed as Non-Executive Director to the Board of Highways England (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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David Abbott<\/strong>,\u00a0Paul Crook<\/strong>,\u00a0Owen Derbyshire<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Liz Owen\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed to the Legal Services Consumer Panel (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Paddy Harte<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Chair of the\u00a0Board of the International Fund for Ireland (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Sadie Ward-McDermott, Avila Kilmurray, Allen McAdam, Richard O’Rawe, Bernie Butler and Hilary Singleton<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed to the Board of the International Fund for Ireland (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Koulla Yiasouma<\/strong>\u00a0has been reappointed\u00a0Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Neil Rennick<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Chair of the\u00a0Scottish Government Expert Payment Advisory Panel (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Professor Graeme Roy, Professor\u00a0Emeritus Frank Stephen,\u00a0Ruth Innes QC,\u00a0Ronaldo Renucci QC,\u00a0Ross Yuill,\u00a0Ian Moir,\u00a0Mark Thorley,\u00a0Paul Brown,\u00a0Raymond McMenamin,\u00a0Colin Lancaster<\/strong>\u00a0have been appponted members of the\u00a0Scottish Government Expert Payment Advisory Panel (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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John Pearce<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Chair to the Board of Community Health Councils (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

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Liz Saville Roberts\u00a0replaces\u00a0Philippa Whitford<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

Lord Bhattacharyya<\/strong>\u00a0died\u00a0on\u00a0the 1st March (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Lord Davies of Coity<\/strong>\u00a0died on the 4th March (more info)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, Lord Farmer, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Baroness Bertin and Lord Blair of Broughton<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed to the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill.<\/p>\n

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Scottish Liberal Democrats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katy Gordon<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Economy and Fair Work spokesperson (more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Barrett<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Communities and Local Government\u00a0spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Rosemary Bruce<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Public Health spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Emma Walker<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Mental Health spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Carole Ford<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed spokesperson for Children and Young People\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Wendy Chamberlain<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Constitutional Relations spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Rebecca Bell<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Environment spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Jenny Marr<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Rural Affairs and Natural Environment spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Eileen McCartin<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Culture and Tourism spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

Caron Lindsay<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Social Security and Housing spokesperson\u00a0(more info).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alison Johnstone and Patrick Harvie<\/strong>\u00a0have been confirmed as Co-Leaders of the Scottish Greens Parliamentary Group (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

This week, the European Parliament is in Brussels for committee and group sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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