{"id":96741,"date":"2016-11-28T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=96741&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=96741"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:43:02","slug":"political-updates-28-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-28-november-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 28 November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\" alt=\"Political-Updates-Logo-3\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-705x264.png 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-450x169.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This week\u2019s\u00a0Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and supranational.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-full hr-no-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"house-of-commons-logo\" width=\"86\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Richmond Park by-election<\/u><\/p>\n<p>The by-election will take place this Thursday, 1<sup>st<\/sup> December.<\/p>\n<p>The final list of candidates is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zac Goldsmith, Independent<\/li>\n<li>Howling Laud Hope, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party<\/li>\n<li>Maharaja Jammu and Kashmir, One Love Party<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Olney, Liberal Democrats<\/li>\n<li>David Powell<\/li>\n<li>Dominic Francis Stockford, Christian Peoples Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Fiona Natasha Syms, Independent<\/li>\n<li>Christian Wolmar, Labour Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Select Committees:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Administration:<\/strong> Robert Syms (CON) joined; Robin Walker (CON) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Audit:<\/strong> Gavin Shuker (LAB) joined; Alan Whitehead (LAB) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>European Scrutiny:<\/strong> Alan Brown (SNP) and Paul Monaghan (SNP) joined; Peter Grant (SNP) and Calum Kerr (SNP) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitions:<\/strong> Luke Hall (CON) joined; Nick Hurd (CON) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy:<\/strong> Yvette Cooper (LAB) and Theresa Villiers (CON) joined; Damian Green (CON) and Keith Vaz (LAB) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scottish Affairs:<\/strong> Anna Soubry (CON) joined; Maggie Throup (CON) left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Accounts:<\/strong> Anne Marie Morris (CON) joined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northern Ireland Affairs:<\/strong> Mark Pritchard (CON) joined; Nigel Evans (CON) left.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lord Taylor of Blackburn<\/strong>\u00a0has sadly passed away\u00a0following a road accident outside the Houses of Parliament.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lord Henley<\/strong> has been appointed as a Lord in Waiting (Government Whip).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>New All Party Parliamentary Groups<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><u>24th November register<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Brexit \u2013 John Penrose (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Business Brexit \u2013 Anne Marie Morris (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf \u2013 Margaret Ferrier (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Formula One \u2013 Jeffrey Donaldson (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Fourth Industrial Revolution \u2013 Alan Mak (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Fruit and Vegetable Farmers \u2013 Helen Whately (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Guantanamo Bay \u2013 Chris Law (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Leasehold Reform \u2013 Peter Bottomley (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Meningitis \u2013 Neil Carmichael (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Mountain and Cave Rescue \u2013 Andrew Bingham (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Photonics \u2013 Carol Monaghan (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Psychoactive Substances and Volatile Substance Abuse \u2013 David Hanson (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Self-Build, Custom and Community Housebuilding and Placemaking &#8211; \u00a0Richard Bacon (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Somaliland \u2013 Clive Betts (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Town Centres \u2013 Jim McMahon (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Transatlantic Trade \u2013 John Spellar (Chair)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Devolved Institutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96464 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"145\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny committee:<\/strong> Ross Thomson (CON) joined; Alison Harris (CON) left.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delegated Powers and Law Reform committe:<\/strong> Alison Harris (CON) joined; Rachael Hamilton (CON) left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-96463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"northern-ireland-assembly-logo\" width=\"140\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jennifer McCann (Sinn Fein) <\/strong>MLA for West Belfast, has announced she will vacate her Assembly seat within the next few weeks. \u00a0On <strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> December<\/strong>\u00a0a selection event will be held and a replacement chosen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Local Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sheena Ramsey<\/strong> has been chosen as the new chief executive to <strong>Gateshead Council<\/strong>. She will join\u00a0the council in February 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adrian Lythgo,<\/strong>\u00a0chief executive of <strong>Kirklees Council<\/strong> will step down in February 2017.\u00a0<strong>Jacqui Gedman<\/strong> will take over for 12 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96459 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/European-Parliament-Logo.png\" alt=\"european-parliament-logo\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This week the\u00a0European Parliament will be sitting in <strong>Brussels<\/strong> for Committee meetings, Political Group meetings, and a meeting of the Conciliation Committee. MEPs will meet in Plenary on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martin Schulz, <\/strong>the President of the European Parliament has announced that he will not seek re-election as President. He will instead seek election to the German National Parliament, the Bundestag.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alain Lamassoure <\/strong>and <strong>Mairead McGuinness<\/strong>, both of the European People\u2019s Party have announced they will seek election as President of the Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>The election for President of the Parliament will take place in January 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diane James <\/strong>has left the UK Independence Party and will now sit in the European Parliament as an independent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Party News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The new Leader of the <strong>UK Independence Party<\/strong> will be announced today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":99279,"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\/96741"}],"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\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124377,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96741\/revisions\/124377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}