Summary of business appointments applications - Mary Calam
Published 20 June 2016
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Mary Calam left her role as Director General, Crime and Policing Group, Home Office in June 2016.
1. Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company
Ms Calam sought the Committee’s advice about taking up an appointment as a Senior Expert with McKinsey & Company.
When it considered this application the Committee took into account that while Ms Calam has had some official dealings with McKinsey and other companies in this sector, there has been no commercial element and she has not been involved in any decisions affecting them. She has no access to information that could be regarded as commercially valuable or sensitive. The Committee further took into account that the Home Office has no reservations about the propriety of this appointment.
McKinsey has given an undertaking that it will ensure that Ms Calam is not required to act in a way which is incompatible with the Business Appointment Rules in any project in which she is involved.
The Prime Minister accepted that Committee’s advice that there was no reason why she should not take up this appointment, subject to the conditions that:
- She should not draw on any privileged information available to her from her time in Crown service;
- For two years from her last day in service, she should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK Government on behalf of McKinsey and Company, its subsidiaries or clients or use her Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business on behalf of McKinsey and Company, its subsidiaries or clients;
- For 12 months from her last day of Crown service she should not provide advice on bids or contracts relating to the Home Office; on McKinsey client matters upon which she has been directly involved while in Crown service; or with regard to the formulation by any government of policy in the areas of crime, policing or national security.
Sir Alex Allan recused himself from this case.
The letter containing the final advice was sent in April 2016 and Ms Calam commenced the role in June 2016.