{"id":125494,"date":"2019-10-21T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=125196&preview=true&preview_id=125196"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:06:41","slug":"political-updates-21-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-21-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 21 October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Melissa Tatton<\/strong> appointed as new Tax Assurance Commissioner (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Pat Richie<\/strong> (Newcastle City Council Chief Executive) appointed as new Chair for Government Property Agency (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Sandie Dawe<\/strong> appointed to the Historic England Board, for four years (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Christober Baker<\/strong> and Stuart Lochhead<\/strong> appointed as Members of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works for Art, for four years (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Antonio Horta-Osorio<\/strong> reappointed as Chair of Wallace Collection (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Stuart Hudson<\/strong> appointed as Senior Director For Strategy, Communications, Nations and Regions at the CMA (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Simon Devonshire OBE<\/strong> appointed as New Chairman for Ploughshare Innovations, the Technology transfer company for Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Boris Johnson <\/strong>to chair new committee on Climate Change to drive further action across government to protect the environment (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>House of Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ugbana Oyet<\/strong> announced as new Serjeant at Arms (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 House of Lords<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four new members introduced into the House of Lords. Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green <\/strong>(Crossbench), Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick <\/strong>(Non-affiliated), Baroness Blower<\/strong> (Labour) and Lord Hendy<\/strong> (Labour) (<\/span>more info<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Liberal Democrats have announced a new Shadow Cabinet line-up, as follows (more info<\/a>):<\/p>\n