Ministerial appointments/Round-up of Members Lobby contact changes

The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments:

• Justin Tomlinson MP to be a Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions.
• James Cleverly MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
• Seema Kennedy MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care.
• Andrew Stephenson MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
• Will Quince MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions.
• Kevin Foster MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (unpaid) at the Wales Office and an Assistant Government Whip (paid). He will also be a Parliamentary Secretary (unpaid) at the Cabinet Office while Chloe Smith MP is on maternity leave.

Round-up of other Members Lobby changes (since the last bulletin on March 7)

Government resignations

• Alistair Burt, Minister of State (Department for International Development) (Joint with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
• Steve Brine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
• Richard Harrington (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
• Sarah Newton, Minister for Disabled People
• Nigel Adams, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
• Chris Heaton-Harris, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Select committee changes

• Foreign Affairs - Conor McGinn and Catherine West replace Ian Austin and Mike Gapes 
• Procedure - Gareth Snell replaced Dan Carden
• Welsh Affairs - Jonathan Edwards replaced Liz Saville Roberts
• International Trade - Owen Smith replaced Catherine West

Deaths of peers

• Lord Habgood died on March 7
• Baroness Warnock (who retired from the Lords in 2015) died on March 20