Political Updates 12 March 2018

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government. 

  Government departments

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Rob Varley has stood down as Chief Executive of the Met Office. Nick Jobling has been appointed to the position on a temporary basis.

HM Treasury

David Thorburn has resigned from the Prudential Regulation Committee.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

NneNne Iwuji-Eme will succeed Joanna Kuenssberg as British High Commissioner to the Republic of Mozambique.

Department for Education

Jeanne Watson and Robert Burgess have been reappointed as members of the School Teachers’ Review Body.

Alan Meyrick has been appointed Chief Executive of the Teaching Regulation Agency.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Henry Dimbleby has been appointed as lead non-executive board member.

Colin Day, Ben Goldsmith, Elizabeth Buchanan and Lizzie Noel have been appointed as non-executive board members.

House of Commons

Finance Committee

William Wragg has left and Luke Graham has been appointed as a member.

Northern Ireland Affairs Committee

Maria Caulfield has left and Robert Goodwill has been appointed as a member.

Women and Equalities Committee

Vicky Ford has been appointed as a member.

Petitions Committee

Rehman Chishti has left and Luke Hall has been appointed as a member.

Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c.

Amanda Milling and Mims Davies have left. Bim Afolami and Colin Clark have been appointed as members.

European Parliament

This week, the European Parliament is holding a plenary session in Strasbourg.