{"id":45,"date":"2017-02-21T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/?p=45"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:43:01","slug":"vice-chairman-viscount-simon-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Chairman, Viscount Simon, Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header.png 1300w, https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header-300x46.png 300w, https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header-1024x158.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header-768x118.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/simon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"141\" \/>Viscount Simon was educated at Westminster School and at the School of Navigation, Southampton University, before further studies at\u00a0Sydney Technical College.\u00a0He succeeded\u00a0to viscount and entered the House of Lords\u00a0in 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lords career<\/strong>:\u00a0Deputy Chairman of Committees 1998-; Deputy Speaker 1999-; Elected hereditary peer 1999-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Councils, public bodies<\/strong>: Trustee, Guild of Experienced Motorists, Road Safety Charity 1999-; President: Driving Instructors Association 2000-, GEM Motoring Assist 2004-; Younger Brother, Trinity House 2007-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Political interests<\/strong>: Disability, motor industry, police, road safety, science and technology, aviation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viscount Simon was educated at Westminster School and at the School of Navigation, Southampton University, before further studies at\u00a0Sydney Technical College.\u00a0He succeeded\u00a0to viscount and entered the House of Lords\u00a0in 1993. Lords career:\u00a0Deputy Chairman of Committees 1998-; Deputy Speaker 1999-; Elected hereditary peer 1999- Councils, public bodies: Trustee, Guild of Experienced Motorists, Road Safety Charity 1999-; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}