{"id":383,"date":"2016-10-31T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-08-24T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:00:03","slug":"jbcookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"John appointed to  Exiting the European Union Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">John has been selected by colleagues in Parliament to become a member of the influential Exiting the European Union\u00a0Committee which was set up by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-exiting-the-european-union\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Department for Exiting the European Union<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0and matters falling within the responsibilities of associated public bodies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The committee features twenty one MPs ranging from a variety of parties and is chaired by the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">John was a prominent supporter of the Leave campaign during his tenure as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union during the Referendum.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">To find out more\u00a0about the work of the committee, please click the following link which will take you to the homepage:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/exiting-the-european-union-committee\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/exiting-the-european-union-committee\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John has been selected by colleagues in Parliament to become a member of the influential Exiting the European Union\u00a0Committee which was set up by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Exiting the European Union\u00a0and matters falling within the responsibilities of associated public bodies. The committee features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"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-383","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\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}