{"id":129328,"date":"2020-03-31T10:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=129328"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:37:32","slug":"political-updates-30-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-30-march-2020-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 30th 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>Nick Hurd<\/strong> has been appointed as an Independent Adviser to the Prime Minister on Grenfell.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Oliver Dowden has appointed <strong>Hemant Patel<\/strong> as a Non-Executive Board Member for a term of three years.<\/p>\n<p>Business Secretary Alok Sharma reappoints <strong>Andrea Coscelli<\/strong> as the Chief Executive Officer of the Competition and Markets Authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken McCallum<\/strong> has been named as the new head of MI5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Pocklington<\/strong> appointed the new Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>Professor <strong>Sarah Worthington<\/strong> appointed as Trustee of the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Chisholm<\/strong> has been announced as the new Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office and Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/house-of-lords-pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/house-of-lords-pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><strong>\u00a0 House of Lords\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earl of Selborne <\/strong>(Non-affiliated, hereditary peer) retired from the House of Lords on 26th March. A hereditary peer by-election will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baroness Penn <\/strong>replaces Baroness Berridge as Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord Garel-Jones<\/strong> (Conservative, life peer) died on 24th March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord Graham of Edmonton<\/strong> (Labour\/Co-op, life peer) died on 20th March.<\/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>Colin McGrath <\/strong>replaced Sinead Bradley as a member of the Health Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Liberal_Democrats_logo_2014.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Liberal_Democrats_logo_2014.svg_-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Liberal_Democrats_logo_2014.svg_-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Liberal_Democrats_logo_2014.svg_.png 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Olney<\/strong> replaced Munira Wilson as Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Transport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/129328"}],"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=129328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129332,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129328\/revisions\/129332"}],"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=129328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}