Round-up of Members Lobby contact changes
Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:57
Appointments/contact changes since January 23 Front bench changes
Alister Jack MP was appointed an Assistant Government Whip on
February 20 Robert Goodwill was appointed on March 5 to
replace Agriculture minister George Eustice who resigned on
February 28 Select committee changes Finance Committee -
Bambos Charalambous replaced Helen Jones Work and Pensions
Committee - Anna Soubry replaced Alex Burghart Standards
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Appointments/contact changes since January
23
Front bench changes
-
MP was appointed an
Assistant Government Whip on February 20
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was appointed on
March 5 to replace Agriculture minister who resigned on
February 28
Select committee changes
- Finance Committee - replaced
- Work and Pensions Committee - replaced
- Standards - has been added as a member
- Privileges - has been added as a member
- Environmental Audit - replaced
- Joint Committee on Human Rights - replaced
- Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs
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replaced
Death of an MP
-
,
Labour MP for Newport West, died on February 17
Deaths of peers
- Baroness (Marcia) Falkender died on February 6
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died on March 1
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died on March 4
Lords select committee changes
- European Union Committee - The replaced
Retirements from the House of Lords
Resignations
- On February 18 , , , , , , and left the to sit as The Independent
Group
- On February 19 , and left the Conservative Party
to sit with The Independent Group
- On February 22 left the to sit as an independent
Independent Group positions (announced on March
1)
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: welfare and pensions,
social care, and business
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: home affairs, health, and
digital and culture
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: children and education
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: foreign affairs and defence
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: Treasury and trade
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: group business manager and
international development
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: group convener
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: transport, local government
and housing, and energy, environment and rural affairs
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: Brexit and justice (and
assisting on defence)
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: Group spokesman, Cabinet
Office and government policy co-ordination
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- New colleagues
Special advisers
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was appointed press
secretary to Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Civil Servants
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announced she
would leave her post as Chief Medical Officer in September to
take up the post of Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
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is to retire as
Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the European
Union at the end of March
- Defra Permanent Secretary Clare Moriarty will move to head up
the Brexit department
- Tamara Finkelstein, currently leading on DEFRA’s EU Exit
preparations, will be acting Permanent Secretary at DEFRA until a
successor is appointed
Other changes
-
was appointed a
ministerial champion for Salisbury
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was dismissed as
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for
Scotland on February 27 when he
proposed forcing the Government to bolster protections for EU
citizens after Brexit
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