{"id":87717,"date":"2018-01-04T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d8562d50227f8d51e7d09c92f2cf6bca"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:34:52","slug":"news-story-stephen-glaister-reappointed-as-chair-of-rail-and-road-regulator-orr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87717","title":{"rendered":"News story: Stephen Glaister reappointed as chair of rail and road regulator ORR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Professor Stephen Glaister <abbr title=\"Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire\">CBE<\/abbr> has been reappointed as the chair of the Office of Rail and Road (<abbr title=\"Office of Rail and Road\">ORR<\/abbr>) for a further year.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Office of Rail and Road\">ORR<\/abbr> is the <abbr title=\"united Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s independent rail regulator and strategic roads monitor for England. It protects the interests of rail and road users now and in the future by seeking improvements in safety, value and performance.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am grateful that Professor Glaister has agreed to stay on this year to continue the excellent work he has been doing. It is vital we maintain a strong, independent regulator to deliver a safe <abbr title=\"united Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> rail network as well as value for money for taxpayers and other funders. His knowledge and experience will ensure that continues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The search for a replacement to take up the chair of <abbr title=\"Office of Rail and Road\">ORR<\/abbr> from 2019 will take place early this year (2018).<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1019\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Rail media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office of Rail and Road chair, Professor Stephen Glaster, reappointed.<\/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\/87717"}],"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=87717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}