Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
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ACOBA’s closure: the new process and contact details for applications under the Business Appointments Rules as of Monday 13 October 2025
ACOBA is no longer in operation. Applications for ministers should be sent to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards. Applications for Crown servants should be sent to the Civil service Commission. If your case is yet to be finalised, the successor body will be in touch.
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Isabel Doverty appointed as the interim Chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.
Isabel Doverty has been appointed as the interim Chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACoBA).
Press release
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments – Report 2020-24 - ‘The time to restore trust is now’
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA), that provides independent advice to former Ministers and the most senior servants on appointments they wish to take up on leaving government, has today published a report covering its work from 2020 – 2024.
Guidance
ACOBA's correspondence to all departing ministers - a brief guide to ACOBA
ACOBA writes to departing ministers on leaving office to remind them of their responsibility to seek advice on new outside roles; and to provide a brief guide to the process.
Service
Archived ACOBA annual reports 1996-2009
Access ACOBA’s archived annual reports from 1996-2009, online at the National Archives’ website
Service
Archived ACOBA site
Access ACOBA’s archived website pre 2014, online at the National Archives’ website
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ACOBA is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Cabinet Office.
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