{"id":69609,"date":"2016-04-14T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=192d88ec1cb825949895be254bdc18b9"},"modified":"2016-04-14T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:48:07","slug":"news-story-peter-riddell-to-be-appointed-commissioner-for-public-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69609","title":{"rendered":"News story: Peter Riddell to be appointed Commissioner for Public Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Minister for the Cabinet Office has today recommended Peter Riddell\u2019s appointment as the Commissioner for Public Appointments to the Privy Council.  <\/p>\n<p>Matt Hancock, Minister for the Cabinet Office said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Public appointments cover some of the most important roles in the country, and I am delighted to say Peter Riddell will be the next Commissioner for Public Appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This will be a challenging role. Peter\u2019s distinguished record makes him ideally suited. I very much look forward to working with him to introduce greater transparency and tackle the bureaucracy around public appointments to help attract a diverse range of high calibre people to serve their country in these important roles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt Hancock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/peter-riddell-recommended-for-key-appointments-role\">announced Peter Riddell as the government\u2019s preferred candidate<\/a> for the role on 17 March 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hancock has recommended to the Privy Council Peter Riddell&#8217;s appointment as the Commissioner for Public Appointments.<\/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\/69609"}],"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=69609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}