{"id":70685,"date":"2016-05-18T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=10a0c6500f91fd25ed5b1e25339fd216"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:38:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:38:27","slug":"press-release-national-infrastructure-commission-on-the-governments-plans-to-place-nic-on-a-statutory-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70685","title":{"rendered":"Press release: National Infrastructure Commission on the government&#8217;s plans to place NIC on a statutory footing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, Lord Adonis said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I strongly welcome the government\u2019s announcement that it will make the National Infrastructure Commission statutory and independent. This is a major advance for infrastructure planning in Britain and will give the commission the power it needs to do its work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The commission looks forward to engaging with MPs and Peers \u200eas the legislation advances to make this process as successful as possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"background\">Background:<\/h3>\n<p>Government announced that it would create a new statutory basis for the independent National Infrastructure Commission through the 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/queens-speech-2016\">Queen\u2019s Speech<\/a>  (18 May 2016).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Adonis, Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission welcomes the government&#8217;s announcement that it will make the NIC statutory and independent.<\/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\/70685"}],"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=70685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}