{"id":85816,"date":"2017-10-27T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4c16f652fd8fce3d9d81cc0ebd07074b"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:43:00","slug":"news-story-ministerial-appointments-27-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85816","title":{"rendered":"News story: Ministerial appointments: 27 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has approved the departures from Government of the Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE and Lord Prior of Brampton.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to approve the following ministerial appointments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Lord Callanan as a Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union (having previously been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rt Hon Lord Henley as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lord Duncan of Springbank as a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Northern Ireland Office (having previously been a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Wales Office).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth as a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Wales Office (having previously been a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Northern Ireland Office).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Baroness Sugg CBE as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport (having previously been a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting)).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/baroness-anelays-resignation-letter-and-prime-ministers-response\">Read Baroness Anelay\u2019s resignation letter and the Prime Minister\u2019s reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has approved a number of appointments to government and two departures.<\/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\/85816"}],"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=85816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}