{"id":131471,"date":"2020-07-28T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=131471"},"modified":"2020-07-28T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:30:37","slug":"political-updates-28-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-28-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 28 July 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

Jon Loveday<\/strong> has been appointed new Director of Infrastructure, Enterprise and Growth at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.<\/p>\n

Dipesh J Shah<\/strong> will replace Colin Matthews<\/strong> as Chair of Highways England.<\/p>\n

Melissa Tatton<\/strong> will become Interim Group Director, Corporate at Ofcom in September.<\/p>\n

Sarah Munby<\/strong> became Permanent Secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 20 July.<\/p>\n

Mark Babington<\/strong> has been appointed Executive Director, Regulatory Standards, on the Financial Reporting Council. Alex Kuczynski<\/strong> has been appointed Executive Director, Corporate Services and General Counsel.<\/p>\n

Mark White<\/strong> will replace Christine Tacon<\/strong> as Adjudicator at the Groceries Code Adjudicator later in the year. In the interim he will work alongside her as Deputy.<\/p>\n

Melissa Tatton<\/strong> will stand down as Valuation Office Agency Chief Executive at HMRC.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General<\/strong> is seeking to appoint the next Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

Elliot Colburn<\/strong> has replaced Nickie Aiken<\/strong> as a member of the Women and Equalities Committee.<\/p>\n

Gareth Bacon<\/strong> has replaced Nickie Aiken<\/strong> as a member of the Backbench Business Committee.<\/p>\n

Ian Levy<\/strong> has replaced Daniel Kawczynski<\/strong> as a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.<\/p>\n

James Gray<\/strong> and Douglas Ross<\/strong> have replaced Anthony Mangnall<\/strong> and Gary Sambrook<\/strong> as members of the Procedure Committee.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Morris of Handsworth<\/strong> (Labour, life peer) has retired.<\/p>\n

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

Marina Gibbs<\/strong> has been reappointed as a lay member of the Legal Services Board. Flora Page<\/strong> and Stephen Gowland<\/strong> have been appointed as non-lay members.<\/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\/131471"}],"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=131471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131475,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471\/revisions\/131475"}],"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=131471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}