{"id":2960,"date":"2023-04-25T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2023-06-19T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T08:24:46","slug":"appointment-as-minister-for-data-and-digital-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Appointment as Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale MP has been appointed Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure by the Prime Minister, a role similar to the one in held in 2020-2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This role will see John return to Government as a&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;in both the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, while the current&nbsp;Minister, Julia Lopez, is on maternity leave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I am delighted to be returning to Government, as the Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It is an interesting time to be returning to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), during what is a very busy time. There are a number of important bills currently going through Parliament including the Online Safety Bill and the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, of which I played a small part in the preparation of when I was in this role between 2020-2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The role has changed since I was last in post, now covering both DCMS and the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. I look forward to working with both teams whilst overseeing the progress of these ground-breaking bills, and I pass on my best wishes to Julia Lopez, whose seat I will be keeping warm whilst she is on maternity leave&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2961\" width=\"513\" height=\"342\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale MP has been appointed Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure by the Prime Minister, a role similar to the one in held in 2020-2021. This role will see John return to Government as a&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;in both the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}