{"id":129059,"date":"2020-03-17T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=129059"},"modified":"2020-03-17T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:56:28","slug":"political-updates-16-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-16-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 16th March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-129030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><strong>UK Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord Pickles<\/strong> has been announced as the government\u2019s preferred candidate as the chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rev&#8217;d Dr Andrew Neil Emerton<\/strong> is to succeed the Right Reverend Anthony Porter to the Suffragan See of Sherwood. Anthony Porter is due to retire on the 22 March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine Elliott<\/strong> appointed interim Chair of the College of Policing, replacing outgoing chair Millie Banerjee CBE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Lauener<\/strong> appointed Chair of the Student Loans Company<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barry Panayi<\/strong> confirmed as Non-Executive Director at the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem).<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State for Justice has announced the reappointment of <strong>Andrew Dickerson <\/strong>and <strong>Paul West <\/strong>as members of the Prison Service Pay Review Body<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State has reappointed <strong>Pat Butler<\/strong> as a Governor of the British Film Institute for a period of one year from 18 February 2020 to 17 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State has reappointed <strong>Lord Risby<\/strong> as Board Member of the Horserace Betting Levy Board for a period of 2 years, from 1st January 2020 to 31st December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-96460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"170\" \/> \u00a0<\/a><strong>House of Commons <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Howell<\/strong> has replaced John Howell as a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Ferrier<\/strong> joined as a member of the European Scrutiny Committee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Geoffrey Brown, Dame Elanor Laing <\/strong>and <strong>Tommy Shephard<\/strong> join as members of the Finance Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Mangnall<\/strong> joins as a member Procedure Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duncan Baker, Simon Baynes, Elliot Colburn, Chris Elmore, Imran Hussein, Simon Jupp, Conor McGinn, Grahame Morris, Jane Stevenson, Julian Sturdy <\/strong>and<strong> Suzanne Webb<\/strong> join as members of the Joint Committee on Consolidation &amp; Bills<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theo Clarke<\/strong> appointed as chair of the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact Sub-committee.<strong> Richard Bacon, Sarah Champion, Kate Osamor <\/strong>and<strong> Dan Poulter <\/strong>have been appointed as members. <strong>Chris Law<\/strong> has been reappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Bibby<\/strong> appointed as a member of the Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Boyle<\/strong> has been nominated to replace Caroline Gardner as Auditor General, for Audit Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Catney<\/strong> replaced John Dallat as a member of the Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fra McCann<\/strong> replaced Emma Sheerin as a member of the Communities Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martina Anderson<\/strong> replaced Fra McCann as a member of the Executive Office Committee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Rogan<\/strong> replaced Martina Anderson as a member of the Justice Committee.<\/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":436,"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\/129059"}],"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\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129077,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129059\/revisions\/129077"}],"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=129059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}