{"id":131856,"date":"2020-08-17T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=131856"},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:19:56","slug":"political-updates-17-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-17-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 17 August 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

George Edgar OBE<\/strong> has been appointed High Commissioner to Fiji in succession to Melanie Hopkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jessica McBeath<\/strong> and Elizabeth Partyka<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland.<\/p>\n

Jill Young<\/strong> has been appointed as Lord Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire. She will succeed Rear Admiral Michael Gregory OBE<\/strong> who is due to retire on 15 December.<\/p>\n

Jim Dixon<\/strong> and Perdita Hunt<\/strong> have been reappointed as members of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Russell<\/strong> has been reappointed as the interim Chief Executive of the Valuation Office Agency.<\/p>\n

Jo Rowland<\/strong> has been appointed as Director-General of the HMRC Covid-19 Response Unit.<\/p>\n

Karl Khan<\/strong> has been named as Director-General of Customer Services at HMRC.<\/p>\n

Nerys Jefford<\/strong> has been appointed as Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for Wales.<\/p>\n

Peter Richard Lane<\/strong> has been appointed as Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for England.<\/p>\n

Philip Brook Smith<\/strong> and Susan Humble<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Tribunal Procedure Committee.<\/p>\n

Richard Tilbrook<\/strong> has been appointed as the Prime Minister\u2019s Appointments Secretary following the retirement of Edward Chaplin CMG OBE<\/strong> at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Roger Bland<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the Treasure Valuation Committee. Megan Gooch<\/strong> has been appointed as Trustee.<\/p>\n

Judge Greg Sinfield<\/strong> has been appointed as a Senior Judicial Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Rt. Rev. Dr Barry Morgan<\/strong> has been appointed as the Lay Commissioner with responsibility for Welsh matters at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Judge Christa Christensen<\/strong> as the Judicial (Tribunal Judge) Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Mathangi Asokan<\/strong> (District Judge), Judicial Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Emir Feisal<\/strong> (non-legal judicial), Judicial Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Jane Furniss<\/strong>, Lay Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Andrew Kennon<\/strong>, Lay Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

Sir Simon Wessely<\/strong>, Lay Commissioner at the Judicial Commission.<\/p>\n

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

David Frost<\/strong> entered the House of Lords on 12 August as Lord Frost<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

Ruth Jones<\/strong> has been appointed as Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Air Quality.<\/p>\n

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

Catherine McCallum OBE<\/strong>, Norman McKinley<\/strong> and Theresa Donaldson<\/strong> have been appointed as lay members and have already taken up their roles. Dr Nazia Latif<\/strong> and Dr Thomas Moore<\/strong> have been appointed as lay members from 1 September.<\/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\/131856"}],"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=131856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131860,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131856\/revisions\/131860"}],"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=131856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}