{"id":68779,"date":"2016-03-19T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=21f06d42b594a50ceadc385bf7d563d5"},"modified":"2016-03-19T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:02:00","slug":"press-release-ministerial-appointments-19-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68779","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Ministerial appointments: 19 March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to approve the following ministerial appointments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/stephen-crabb\">Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP<\/a> to become Secretary of State for Work and Pensions<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/alun-cairns-mp\">Alun Cairns MP<\/a> to become Secretary of State for Wales<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/guto-bebb\">Guto Bebb MP<\/a> to become a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* at the Wales Office and a Government Whip (Junior Lord of the Treasury) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This follows the resignation from Government of the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP was previously Secretary of State for Wales<\/li>\n<li>Alun Cairns MP was previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* at the Wales Office and a Government Whip (Junior Lord of the Treasury)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*unpaid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has approved new ministerial appointments at the Department for Work and Pensions and the Wales Office.<\/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\/68779"}],"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=68779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68784,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68779\/revisions\/68784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}