BEIS: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2018
Published 28 June 2018
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
This covers former staff at Senior Civil Service payband 1 (SCS1) and payband 2 (SCS2) levels. It also covers special advisers of equivalent level.
Edmund Hosker
| Full name of applicant | Edmund Hosker |
| Title of former Civil Service role | Director, Special Projects (SCS PB2) |
| Date left/ retired from the Civil Service | 30 April 2017 |
| New employer | Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat |
| New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) | Part Time Project Consultant (January 2018) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | The application is approved with the following conditions: Mr Hosker should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service. |
Stephen Axford
| Full name of applicant | Dr Stephen Axford |
| Title of former Civil Service role | Deputy Director, Science, Research and Innovation - Funding (SCS PB1) |
| Date left/ retired from the Civil Service | 13 March 2018 |
| New employer | Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge |
| New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) | Director of Research Translation and Fellow (14 March 2018) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | The application is approved with the following conditions: Dr Axford should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service. |
Michael Benjamin Jampel
| Full name of applicant | Dr Michael Benjamin Jampel |
| Title of former Civil Service role | Deputy Director, Business Energy Use (SCS PB1) |
| Date left/ retired from the Civil Service | 30 September 2016 |
| New employer | Nordic Heat (SpringNet SA) |
| New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) | Consultant (May 2018) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | The application is approved with the following conditions: Dr Jampel should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service. |
Katherine Anne Courtney
| Full name of applicant | Katherine Anne Courtney |
| Title of former Civil Service role | Director Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (SCS PB2) |
| Date left/ retired from the Civil Service | 30 June 2017 |
| New employer | KCourtney Business Innovation & Strategy (Consultancy) |
| New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) | Ambiental Technical Solutions Ltd - Ambiental Expert Advisory Panel (March 2018) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | The application is approved with the following conditions: - for 2 years from Ms Courtney’s last day of service, she must seek confirmation from the department that each individual commission is permissible under the terms of her consultancy before taking it up. If, after enquiry, the department takes the view that a commission is, or may be, outside the terms of the consultancy she will be expected to submit a fresh application - Ms Courtney should not draw on privileged information available to her from her time in Crown service - for 2 years from her last day of service, Ms Courtney should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of her new company or its employers/clients |