{"id":84001,"date":"2017-09-05T15:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bb516355b2260a368fa84f7442b1d835"},"modified":"2017-09-05T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T15:19:49","slug":"press-release-intimidation-of-parliamentary-candidates-evidence-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84001","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Intimidation of Parliamentary candidates: evidence sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Committee has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/intimidation-of-parliamentary-candidates-cspl-call-for-evidence\">call for evidence<\/a> and invites contributions from anyone with an interest in these issues by 8 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Committee will be holding oral evidence sessions in the Macmillan Room in Portcullis House, Westminster on Thursday 14th September 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"session-1---police-and-security-1440---1530\">Session 1 &#8211; Police and Security 14:40 &#8211; 15:30<\/h3>\n<p>Note: This session will not be open to the public given the nature of material to be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crown Prosecution Service<\/li>\n<li>Director of Security, Houses of Parliament<\/li>\n<li>The National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council<\/li>\n<li>Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"session-2---political-parties-1530---1630\">Session 2 &#8211; Political Parties 15:30 &#8211; 16:30<\/h3>\n<p>This session is open to the public and the media. A transcript will be made available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/the-committee-on-standards-in-public-life\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rt Hon Sir Patrick McLoug\u200bh\u200blin MP: Chair, Conservative Party<\/li>\n<li>Cat Smith MP: Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office) (Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs), Labour Party<\/li>\n<li>Baroness Brinton: President, Liberal Democrat Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Committee will also be holding a roundtable with invited contributors on 12th September, a summary of which will be posted on the Committee\u2019s website after the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/the-committee-on-standards-in-public-life\">Find out more<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/intimidation-of-parliamentary-candidates-cspl-call-for-evidence\">submit evidence to this review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee is currently gathering evidence and views as part of its review on the intimidation of Parliamentary candidates.<\/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\/84001"}],"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=84001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}