{"id":130485,"date":"2020-06-02T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=130485"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:47:27","slug":"political-updates-2-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-2-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 2 June 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

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

Rosamund Blomfield-Smith<\/strong>, Kim Shillinglaw<\/strong>, Kerry ten Kate<\/strong> and Peter Unwin<\/strong> have been appointed to the Natural England board for three years commencing 1 June 2020.<\/p>\n

Kayley Hignell<\/strong> has been appointed to the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC<\/abbr>). Existing member Grainne McKeever<\/strong> has been re-appointed to the Committee for a second term; and Jim McCormick<\/strong>\u2019s current appointment has been extended to October 2020.<\/p>\n

Ros Rivaz<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. He will replace Tom Smith from 1 September 2020.<\/p>\n

Ian Ackerley<\/strong> has been reappointed as Chief Executive of the National Savings and Investments for three years.<\/p>\n

Harris Bokhari<\/strong> and Yadvinder Malhi<\/strong> have been appointed as Trustees of the Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n

Chris Grayling<\/strong> and Mark Cecil<\/strong> have been appointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n

Chris Pilling<\/strong> and Ismail Amla<\/strong> have been appointed as board members of UK Sport.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Hopkins<\/strong> has been reappointed as Law Commissioner for property, family and trust law at the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n

Nick Baker<\/strong> has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer Charity Commission. He will take up this role in August.<\/p>\n

Nick de Bois<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of Visit England.<\/p>\n

David Spiegelhalter<\/strong> and Richard Dobbs<\/strong> have been appointed as non-executive board members of the UK Statistics Authority.<\/p>\n

Patrick McLoughlin<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the British Tourist Authority.<\/p>\n

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

Rosie Duffield<\/strong>, Labour MP for Canterbury, has resigned from her role as Whip after admitting breaking lockdown rules (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

Lord Woolmer<\/strong> (Labour, Life Peer) retired on 26 May.<\/p>\n

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

Barry Fitzpatrick<\/strong> has been reappointed as Acting Chair of the Industrial Court. Barbara Martin<\/strong>, Patrick Masterson<\/strong>, Patricia O’Callaghan<\/strong> and Robin Bell<\/strong> have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Gordon Smyth<\/strong> has been reappointed as Finance Non-Executive Director of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.<\/p>\n

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

Sinead Bradley<\/strong> has replaced Patsy McGlone as a member of the Justice Committee.<\/p>\n

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Labour Party<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

David Evans<\/strong> has been elected as the General Secretary.<\/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\/130485"}],"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=130485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130490,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130485\/revisions\/130490"}],"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=130485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}