{"id":56921,"date":"2015-05-14T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=32885fef5dc6a2b6919981fb04a133d2"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:14:32","slug":"government-response-mark-francois-appointed-minister-for-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56921","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Mark Francois appointed Minister for Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The new Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government Mark Francois has also been confirmed as Minister for Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>This will dovetail with his responsibilities for Coastal Communities in the department.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Francois said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As my late father served in the Royal Navy, I am delighted to be appointed as Minister for Portsmouth. Having spent time at the Ministry of Defence, including as Armed Forces Minister, I have visited Portsmouth on a number of occasions and am well aware of the city\u2019s importance to both the economy and the Royal Navy. I plan to visit the city in the near future and am determined to champion its cause across government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government has also been confirmed as Minister for Portsmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}