{"id":59,"date":"2017-02-21T12:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:26:10","slug":"secretary-lord-davies-of-coity-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Secretary, Alex Chalk, Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/header.png\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.parliament.uk\/ext\/mnis-bio-person\/www.dodspeople.com\/photos\/105925.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Chalk MP\" \/>Secretary, Alex Chalk, Conservative<\/h3>\n<p>Cheltenham is my home town. I live in Charlton Park with my wife and two children, and both go to nursery nearby. I was brought up locally in Foxcote, just by the Kilkeney pub &#8211; a well-known landmark to many Cheltonians! My parents still live nearby.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a career politician. I am 40 years old and have fourteen years&#8217; experience as barrister specialising in counter-terrorism, homicide and serious fraud cases.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that to be an effective politician, political experience can be a huge bonus. It teaches you how to get things done. Whilst building my legal career in London, I was twice elected as a councilor in Hammersmith &amp; Fulham. There I chaired the Planning Committee for four years, during which time I helped adjudicate on multi-billion pound planning applications which brought investment and regeneration to many deprived areas. I also helped drive down council tax to historically-low levels. It was an invaluable training. But that apprenticeship is now over. I have come back home, and I want to put my experience to use to help make Cheltenham the greatest town in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheltenham is my home town. I live in Charlton Park with my wife and two children, and both go to nursery nearby. I was brought up locally in Foxcote, just by the Kilkeney pub &#8211; a well-known landmark to many Cheltonians! My parents still live nearby. I am not a career politician. I am 40 [&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-59","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\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}