{"id":129196,"date":"2020-03-23T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=129196"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:35:43","slug":"political-updates-23-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-23-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 23rd March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>UK Government<\/p>\n

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Matthew Rycroft CBE<\/strong> has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary at the Home Office.<\/p>\n

Lord Pickles <\/strong>has been appointed as Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) Chair. He will take up the role on 1 April 2020.<\/p>\n

Helen Jones, Eileen Munro<\/strong> and Rohan Sivanandan<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) Board for 4 years from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2024.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Priti Patel has welcomed the appointment of Professor Brian Bell<\/strong> as the interim chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).<\/p>\n

Peter Lauener<\/strong> has been appointed Chair of the Student Loans Company.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Saphir<\/strong> has been appointed as new Chair for the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).<\/p>\n

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence appoints Professor Gillian Leng<\/strong> as new Chief Executive.<\/p>\n

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

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Sir Gerald Grimstone<\/strong> was appointed unpaid Minister of State jointly at the Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n

Stephen Greenhalgh<\/strong> was appointed an unpaid Minister of State jointly at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Home Office.<\/p>\n

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Shona Robison<\/strong> replaced Jenny Gilruth\u00a0as a member of the Justice Sub-committee on Policing.<\/p>\n

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Pat Sheehan<\/strong> replaced Jemma Dolan as a member of the Health Committee.<\/p>\n

Jemma Dolan<\/strong> replaced Pat Sheehan as a member of the Justice Committee.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Welsh Government\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Lloyd Jones OBE<\/strong> will continue as interim Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>National Assembly for Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Mary Jones<\/strong> replaced Bethan Sayed as Chair as a member of the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee.<\/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":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\/129196"}],"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=129196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129199,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129196\/revisions\/129199"}],"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=129196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}