{"id":62,"date":"2013-11-08T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:06:08","slug":"minister-of-the-year-spectators-parliamentarian-awards-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Minister of the Year &#8211; The Spectator&#8217;s Parliamentarian Awards 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was named the Minister of the Year recently at The Spectator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1715020-minister-of-the-year-michael-fallon-s-acceptance-speech\" target=\"_blank\">Parliamentarian of the Year Awards 2013<\/a> for his current role as Minister of State for Business and Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting his award, Mr Fallon said:-<br \/>\n\u201cI am in government to get things done and I have been very lucky to be a minister in two departments where we have been able to make things happen; from the hugely successful privatisation of the Royal Mail, to reform of the electricity market.<\/p>\n<p>None of this could have been possible without the dedicated work of the alpha civil servants in both departments as well as my special Special Advisor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was named the Minister of the Year recently at The Spectator\u2019s Parliamentarian of the Year Awards 2013 for his current role as Minister of State for Business and Energy. Accepting his award, Mr Fallon said:- \u201cI am in government to get things done and I have been very lucky to be a minister in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minister of the Year &#8211; The Spectator&#8217;s Parliamentarian Awards 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}