{"id":1740,"date":"2012-09-04T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-09-04T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:44:08","slug":"changes-at-the-department-for-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Changes at the Department for Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw a major cabinet reshuffle in the UK government and this included changes at the Department for Transport where the top job changed hands and a new face was also seen in the Junior Minister ranks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Justine Greening had been the Secretary of State for Transport for less than year and it has\u00a0been widely reported that her move to become Secretary of State for International<br \/>\nDevelopment is as a result of her opposition towards a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Her replacement at the DfT is Patrick McLoughlin, the MP for Derbyshire Dales who was previously Chief Whip.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining the department is Simon Burns who becomes Minister of State for Transport. Norman Baker \u2013 who seems to deal with the majority of the light rail issues \u2013 retains his role as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw a major cabinet reshuffle in the UK government and this included changes at the Department for Transport where the top job changed hands and a new face was also seen in the Junior Minister ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}