{"id":129762,"date":"2020-04-28T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=129762"},"modified":"2020-04-28T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:47:33","slug":"political-updates-28-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-28-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 28 April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stay on top of latest political appointments – covering recent changes and moves at a national level in UK politics.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Smith<\/strong> has been appointed Non-executive Board member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.<\/p>\n

Peter Clarke<\/strong>\u2019s term of office as Her Majesty\u2019s Chief Inspector of Prisons, has been extended by up to six months, commencing 1 May 2020.<\/p>\n

Christine Tacon<\/strong> has had her term as Groceries Code Adjudicator extended for a period of up to six months from 1 June 2020.<\/p>\n

The Government has launched an open competition to appoint the next Independent Reviewer of the Prevent programme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

Elections to determine Chairs of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee<\/strong> (to replace Rachel Reeves who was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) and the Standards Committee<\/strong> (to replace Kate Green who was appointed Shadow Minister for Child Poverty Strategy) will take place on 6 May 2020. Only members of the Labour Party may be candidates.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Alderdice<\/strong>, Lord Bates<\/strong>, Lord Duncan of Springbank<\/strong>, Lord McNicol of West Kilbride<\/strong> and Lord Russell of Liverpool<\/strong> have been appointed Deputy Chairmen of Committees on the panel of members.<\/p>\n

Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford<\/strong> has replaced Baroness Penn on the Science and Technology Committee.<\/p>\n

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Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Willie Coffey, Annabelle Ewing, Shona Robison, Stewart Stevenson, Murdo Fraser, Adam Tomkins, Monica Lennon, Ross Greer, Beatrice Wishart <\/strong>have been appointed members of a new COVID-19 Committee. The Convener will be a member of the Conservative Party (TBC) and the Deputy Convener will be a member of the Labour Party (TBC).<\/p>\n

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Northern Ireland Assembly<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Joanne Bunting <\/strong>has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Audit Committee.
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Labour Party<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon<\/strong> has been appointed Race Relations Adviser, leading a review into the impact of coronavirus on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities.<\/p>\n

Marsha de Cordova<\/strong> has been appointed Lead on Equality and Inclusion within the party.<\/p>\n

Sam Tarry<\/strong> appointed Parliamentary Lead (Campaigns and Organisation) (reporting to Party Chair).<\/p>\n

Tulip Siddiq<\/strong> has been appointed Parliamentary Lead (Party Development), reporting to Party Chair.<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"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\/129762"}],"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\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129768,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129762\/revisions\/129768"}],"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=129762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}