Government departments
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport: British Film Institute - Charles Cecil and Alison Cornwell reappointed as board members; Natural History Museum – Janet Thornton and Robert Noel appointed as trustees; VisitBritain – Christopher Rodrigues reappointed as Chair.
- Department for Energy and Climate Change: UK Government Investments - Simon Palley appointed as Non-Executive Director.
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: UK Export Finance – Gordon Welsh appointed as Head of Business Group; Copyright Tribunal - Andrew Clay is the new Deputy Chair.
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation - Julie Swan appointed Executive Director for General Qualifications.
House of Lords
- Lord Bridges, Lord Neill of Bladen, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield and Baroness Lady Thomas of Walliswood have ceased to be members of the House after not attending any proceedings in the 2015-16 session.
- Selection Committee - Lord Craig of Radley replaced Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers as member.
House of Commons
- Standards Committee – Jane Burgess, Arun Midha, Charmaine Burton ad Peter Rubin appointed as lay members.
Green Party
- Natalie Bennett to step down as Leader.
Welsh Government Reshuffle
- Carwyn Jones - First Minister.
- Ken Skates - Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – formerly Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism.
- Vaughan Gething - Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport – formerly Deputy Minister for Health.
- Mark Drakeford - Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – formerly Minister for Health and Social Services.
- Kirsty Williams – Cabinet Secretary for Education.
- Lesley Griffiths - Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – formerly Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty.
- Carl Sargeant - Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – formerly Minister for Natural Resources.
- Jane Hutt - Leader of the House and Chief Whip – formerly Minister for Finance and Government Business.
- Julie James - Minister for Skills and Science – formerly Deputy Minister for Skills and Alun Davies - Minister for Lifelong Learning and Welsh Language.
- Rebecca Evans - Minister for Social Services and Public Health – formerly Deputy Minister for Farming and Food.
Scottish Government Reshuffle
Cabinet
- Nicola Sturgeon - First Minister.
- John Swinney - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills – formerly Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy.
- Derek Mackay - Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution – formerly Minister for Transport and Islands.
- Keith Brown - Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work – formerly Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities.
- Fergus Ewing - Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity – formerly Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism.
- Shona Robison - Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport – role renamed from Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport.
- Michael Matheson – Cabinet Secretary for Justice – role unchanged.
- Fiona Hyslop - Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs – role renamed from Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs.
- Roseanna Cunningham - Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform – formerly Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training.
- Angela Constance - Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities – formerly Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.
Ministers
- Economy, Jobs and Fair Work: Paul Wheelhouse - Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy – formerly Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs; Jamie Hepburn - Minister for Employability and Training – formerly Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health.
- Finance and Constitution: Joe Fitzpatrick - Minister for Parliamentary Business.
- Education and Skills: Mark McDonald - Minister for Childcare and Early Years – formerly Parliamentary Liaison Officer to John Swinney as Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy; Shirley-Anne Somerville - Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science.
- Health and Sport: Aileen Campbell - Minister for Public Health and Sport – formerly Minister for Children and Young People; Maureen Watt - Minister for Mental Health – formerly Minister for Public Health.
- Communities, Social Security and Equalities: Jeane Freeman - Minister for Social Security; Kevin Stewart - Minister for Local Government and Housing - formerly Parliamentary Liaison Officer to Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister.
- Justice: Annabelle Ewing - Minister for Community Safety – formerly Minister for Youth and Women's Employment
- Culture, Tourism and External Affairs: Alasdair Allan - Minister for International Development – formerly Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages.
- Rural Economy and Connectivity: Humza Yousaf - Minister for Transport and the Islands – formerly Minister for Europe and International Development.
Scottish Conservative Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle
- Ruth Davidson – Leader.
- John Lamont – Chief Whip - formerly Chief Whip and Business Manager.
- Jackson Carlaw - Deputy Leader and Shadow Cabinet secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs – formerly Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Health.
- Murdo Fraser - Shadow cabinet secretary for finance – formerly Spokesperson for Finance, Enterprise, Energy and Tourism.
- Dean Lockhart - Shadow cabinet secretary for economy, jobs and fair work.
- Donald Cameron - Shadow cabinet secretary for health and sport.
- Liz Smith - Shadow cabinet secretary for education and skills – formerly Spokesperson for Culture, Sport and Young People.
- Adam Tomkins - Shadow cabinet secretary for communities, social security, the constitution and equalities.
- Douglas Ross - Shadow cabinet secretary for justice.
- Peter Chapman - Shadow cabinet secretary for rural economy and connectivity.
- Maurice Golden - Shadow cabinet secretary for the environment, climate change and land reform.
- No longer in post: Margaret Mitchell – formerly Spokesperson for Justice; Alex Johnstone – formerly Spokesperson for Infrastructure, Capital Investment, Housing and Transport.
Local Authorities
- Merton Council by-election Result 19th May – Jerome Neil elected for St Helier – Labour hold.
Industry, trade associations and third sector
- Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations - Stephen Bubb to become Head of the Charity Futures Programme; Asheem Singh to replace him as Chief Executive on an interim basis.
- Which? – Alex Neill replaced Richard Lloyd as Executive Director.
- JBP – Clarence Mitchell joined as Director of Client and Media Services.
- Westminster Advisers – Mark Cazaly to join as Account Director in June.
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Julia Unwin to stand down as Chief Executive at the end of 2016.
- Movember Foundation – Owen Sharp to replace Adam Garone as Chief Executive.