{"id":129881,"date":"2020-05-05T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=129881"},"modified":"2020-05-05T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:48:21","slug":"political-updates-5-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-5-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 5 May 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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Minister of State for Trade Conor Burns<\/strong> has resigned from his ministerial role after an investigation by the Committee on Standards found he had made \u2018veiled threats\u2019 to use parliamentary privilege in a debt dispute involving his father.<\/p>\n

Marian Spain<\/strong> has been appointed as the new chief executive of Natural England.<\/p>\n

Nickie Aiken<\/strong>, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, has been appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.<\/p>\n

Richard Callander<\/strong> has been appointed Lord Lieutenant for Midlothian, succeeding Robert Clerk who retired on 3 April 2020.<\/p>\n

Reverend Prebendary William Peter Guy Hazlewood<\/strong> will take over from the Right Reverend Richard Jackson to the Suffragan See of Lewes.<\/p>\n

Reverend Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyager<\/strong> will take over from the Right Reverend Mark Sowerby to the Suffragan See of Horsham.<\/p>\n

Christine Tacon<\/strong> has been reappointed as Groceries Code Adjudicator.<\/p>\n

Paul Winkle<\/strong> has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Magnox at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.<\/p>\n

Brian Bannister<\/strong>, Jo Hill<\/strong>, Martin Narey<\/strong> and Terry Babbs<\/strong> appointed as Commissioners at the Gambling Commission.<\/p>\n

Claire Bassett<\/strong> will step down as Director Chief Executive Designate of the Trade Remedies Authority on 31 August to take up a new position as Deputy Director General Operations in the Independent Office for Police Conduct, Home Office.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Eatwell<\/strong> and Lord Turnberg<\/strong> were non-affiliated members and are now sitting as Labour.<\/p>\n

Lord Mitchell<\/strong> was Crossbench and is now sitting as Labour.<\/p>\n

Countess of Mar<\/strong> (Crossbench, hereditary peer) retired from the House of Lords on 1 May.<\/p>\n

Lord Teverson<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the EU Environment Sub-Committee. Lord Baroness Brown of Cambridge<\/strong>, Baroness Bryan of Partick<\/strong>, Baroness Byford<\/strong>, Lord Cameron of Dillington<\/strong>, Lord Carter of Coles<\/strong>, Lord Giddens<\/strong>, Baroness Jolly<\/strong>, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering<\/strong>, Duke of Montrose<\/strong>, Earl of Stair<\/strong> and Lord Young of Norwood Green<\/strong> have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Baroness Verma<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the EU Goods Sub-Committee. Lord Berkeley<\/strong>, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey<\/strong>, Lord Faulkner of Worcester<\/strong>, Baroness Kramer<\/strong>, Lord Lamont of Lerwick<\/strong>, Lord Lilley<\/strong>, Lord Russell of Liverpool<\/strong>, Lord Shipley<\/strong>, Lord Turnbull<\/strong>, Lord Wigley<\/strong> and Lord Wood of Anfield<\/strong> have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Lord Goldsmith<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the EU International Agreements Sub-Committee. Lord Alderdice<\/strong>, Lord Fraser of Corriegarth<\/strong>, Lord Gold<\/strong>, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard<\/strong>, Lord Lansley<\/strong>, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke<\/strong>, Lord Morris of Aberavon<\/strong>, Lord Oates<\/strong>, Lord Robathan<\/strong>, Earl of Sandwich<\/strong> and Lord Watts<\/strong> have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Lord Ricketts<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee. Lord Anderson of Ipswich<\/strong>, Lord Anderson of Swansea<\/strong>, Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom<\/strong>, Lord Dholakia, Baroness Finn, Baroness Goudie, Baroness Hamwee, Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate, Lord Lexden, Lord Polak, Baroness Primarolo and Lord Rowlands as members.<\/p>\n

Baroness Donaghy<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the EU Services Sub-Committee. Lord Bruce of Bennachie<\/strong>, Lord Cavendish of Furness<\/strong>, Baroness Couttie<\/strong>, Lord Davies of Stamford<\/strong>, Lord McNally<\/strong>, Baroness Neville-Rolfe<\/strong>, Baroness Prashar<\/strong>, Lord Sharkey<\/strong>, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd<\/strong>, Viscount Trenchard<\/strong> and Lord Vaux of Harrowden<\/strong> have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

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

Dr Nicola Steedman<\/strong> has been appointed as Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer following the resignation of Dr Catherine Calderwood.<\/p>\n

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

Murdo Fraser<\/strong> has been appointed as Convener and Monica Lennon as Deputy Convener Covid-19 Committee.<\/p>\n

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Welsh Government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gordon Brown<\/strong> has been appointed as part of an advisory group on Covid-19 recovery.<\/p>\n

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

Michael Wardlow<\/strong> has been re-appointed Chair of the Northern Ireland Police Fund. Alice O’Kane<\/strong>, Brenda Plummer<\/strong>, Colin Caughey<\/strong> and Jonathan Craig <\/strong>have been appointed as new Board Members at the Department of Justice.<\/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":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\/129881"}],"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=129881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129888,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129881\/revisions\/129888"}],"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=129881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}