{"id":2745,"date":"2011-05-20T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2011-05-23T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:52:01","slug":"government-appointments-for-wales-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Government appointments for Wales &#038; Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Appointments have been made in the devolved governments following the elections, with Fiona Hyslop retaining heritage as <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in Scotland, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">while in Wales the Heritage and Tourism brief being moved to the Housing and Regeneration portfolio under <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Huw Lewis<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Northern Ireland Danny Kennedy MLA is Minister for Regional  Development with responsibility for strategic planning; Nelson  McCausland MLA is Minister for Social Development and his brief includes  urban regeneration and housing; Alex Attwood MLA is Environment  Minister with responsibility for planning control, environment, heritage  and protection of the countryside; while Michelle O\u2019Neill is Minister  for Agriculture and Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p>North  of the border the following MSPs have ministerial responsibilities for  planning, architecture, the built environment, environmental protection,  community development and land use measures: Cabinet Secretary John  Swinney; Minister for Housing and Communities Alex Neil; Minister for  Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop; Cabinet Secretary Richard  Lochead; and Minister for Environment and Climate Change Roseanna  Cunningham.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In  Wales John Griffiths AM has been appointed as the Welsh Government\u2019s  Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development while Huw Lewis AM  becomes Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage.<\/p>\n<div>Search Planning Portal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2011\/may11\/19may11\/190511_7\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/div>\n<p>For Wales see: <a href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/about\/cabinet\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Scotland see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/News\/Releases\/2011\/05\/20132452\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointments have been made in the devolved governments following the elections, with Fiona Hyslop retaining heritage as Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in Scotland, while in Wales the Heritage and Tourism brief being moved to the Housing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2745\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}