Latest appointments/contact changes
Government changes
resigned
as Advocate General for Scotland and Justice Minister on
September 16 and has not yet been replaced.
Appointments made on September 8
-
(previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State in the Ministry) was appointed Minister of State at the
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
-
(previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State at the Department for Transport) was appointed
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of
Housing, Communities and Local Government
-
was
appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the
Department for Transport.
Appointments on September 2 at the new Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office
- Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
Affairs, and First Secretary of State - Rt Hon
- Minister for Middle East and North Africa - Rt Hon
- Minister for Pacific and the Environment - Rt Hon
- Minister for Asia -
- Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth - as a Minister of State
- Minister for Africa -
-
- Minister for European Neighbourhood and the
Americas
-
- Minister
for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development
New trade envoys (Department for International
Trade)
- Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Panama -
- Ukraine -
- Caribbean (with focus on 12 Commonwealth Countries) -
- Western Balkans (covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) -
- Nigeria -
- Mongolia -
- Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam -
- Mozambique -
- Tunisia and Libya -
- Kenya -
- Brunei, Myanmar and Thailand -
- Israel -
- Sri Lanka -
- Morocco -
- Ethiopia -
Opposition
On September 24 three MPs were sacked as Parliamentary Private
Secretaries after they defied a Labour one-line whip to vote
against the Overseas Operations bill. They are:
-
(PPS to Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
)
-
(PPS to the Shadow Health team)
-
(PPS to the
Shadow Scotland and Digital Culture Media and Sport teams)
Select committee changes
- Intelligence and Security - resigned as a member
- European Statutory Instruments - and replaced and
- Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - replaced
- Education - replaced
- Public Accounts - replaced
- Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs -
replaced
- International Trade -
replaced
- National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) - added as a member
- Future Relationship with the European Union - replaced
Death of peer
- Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan died on 26 August
Retirements from the House of Lords
Other changes
-
was
appointed as the Prime Minister's press
secretary
- Richard Tilbrook has been appointed as the Prime
Minister's Appointments Secretary following the
retirement of Edward Chaplin at the end of last year. He will
work with the Archbishops’ Appointments Secretary on the
consultations for diocesan bishops and Crown deanery
appointments, attending meetings of the Crown Nominations
Commission
- Susan Acland-Hood has been made Acting Permanent
Secretary at the Department for Education following the
resignation of
-
EU Commissioner for Trade resigned over a breach of coronavirus guidelines
- Sir was elected the new leader of the Liberal
Democrat Party
-
was appointed
as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil
Service
