{"id":77493,"date":"2016-12-21T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2b577687c15a71fc8e9faf10c7bfbc9c"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T11:12:25","slug":"press-release-ministerial-appointments-21-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77493","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Ministerial appointments: 21 December 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<p>Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG as Commercial Secretary (Minister of State) at Her Majesty\u2019s Treasury (having previously been a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rt Hon Lord Henley as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* at the Department for Work and Pensions in addition to his current role as a Government Whip (Lord in Waiting)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lord O\u2019Shaughnessy as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* at the Department of Health and a Government Whip (Lord in Waiting)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lord Prior of Brampton as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (having previously been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Baroness Buscombe and Baroness Vere of Norbiton as Government Whips (Baronesses in Waiting*)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen previously a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) has left the government<\/li>\n<li>Baroness Goldie DL continues as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) but will be unpaid<\/li>\n<li>Baroness Shields OBE continues as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* at the Home Office (but has ceased to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*unpaid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has approved new ministerial appointments for HM Treasury, DWP, Department of Health and the Department for Business.<\/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\/77493"}],"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=77493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}