Political Updates 19 February 2018

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

  Government departments

Department of Health and Social Care

• Simon Eccles will replace Keith McNeil as Chief Clinical Information Officer at NHS England.

Department for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

• Samir Shah has been reappointed as Chair of the Geffrye Museum Board
• Carol Brady has been appointed as a Commissioner of the Gambling Commission
• Ashok Roy, Kate de Rothschild-Agius and Tim Schroder have been reappointed as Trustees at the Wallace Collection
• Anne Panter has been appointed as a member of the board at UK Sport
• Moira Andrews, Liz Cooper, Peter Gooderham and John Wood have been named as members of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives

Home Office

• Richard Stevenson, Harry Shapiro, Ann Sullivan, Rosalie Weetma, Derek Tracy, Simon Thomas, Hilary Hamnet and Lawrence Gibbons have been appointed as members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

• Malcolm Morley has been appointed as Chair of Radioactive Waste Management

House of Commons

The House of Commons returns from recess on Tuesday 20 February

House of Lords

The House of Lords returns from recess on Tuesday 20 February

Scottish Government

Robert Wilson has replaced Ben Thomson as Chair of Creative Scotland

National Assembly for Wales

Jack Sargeant has been appointed as a member of the following committees:

• External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee (replacing Dawn Bowden)
• Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee (replacing Mick Antoniw)
• Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee (replacing Lee Waters)

European Parliament

This week, the European Parliament will hold committee meetings in Brussels