Transparency data
DCMS business appointment rules between April and June 2021
Updated 30 September 2025
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1. DCMS decisions made under the Business Appointment Rules between April and June 2021
| Full Name of Applicant | Katherine Merrifield |
| Title of Former Civil Service Role | SCS1 - Deputy Director, Corporate Strategy, Analysis and Tackling Loneliness (job-share) |
| Date Left/Retired from the Civil Service | 02/05/2021 |
| New Employer | The Health Foundation |
| New Appointment/Employment (including when taken up) | Assistant Director, Healthy Lives 03/05/2021 |
| Department’s Decision on Application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | BARS application completed and unconditionally approved by DCMS with no restrictions imposed. |
| Full Name of Applicant | Gwen Nightingale |
| Title of Former Civil Service Role | SCS1 - Deputy Director, Corporate Strategy, Analysis and Tackling Loneliness (job-share) |
| Date Left/Retired from the Civil Service | 02/05/2021 |
| New Employer | The Health Foundation |
| New Appointment/Employment (including when taken up) | Assistant Director, Healthy Lives 03/05/2021 |
| Department’s Decision on Application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | BARS application completed and unconditionally approved by DCMS with no restrictions imposed. |
| Full Name of Applicant | Robert Burles |
| Title of Former Civil Service Role | SCS1 - Deputy Director Fixed Telecoms and Markets Regulation |
| Date Left/Retired from the Civil Service | 09/05/2021 |
| New Employer | Swish Fibre |
| New Appointment/Employment (including when taken up) | Head of Regulatory Affairs 10/05/2021 |
| Department’s Decision on Application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | BARS application completed and unconditionally approved by DCMS with no restrictions imposed. |
| Full Name of Applicant | Oliver Buckley |
| Title of Former Civil Service Role | SCS2 - Executive Director CDEI |
| Date Left/Retired from the Civil Service | 14/06/2021 |
| New Employer | Teneo Strategy Limited |
| New Appointment/Employment (including when taken up) | Managing Director 05/07/2021 |
| Department’s Decision on Application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | The applicant must ensure that any documents they hold in relation to their role are disposed of in a confidential manner. They must refrain from advising clients on any activity in DCMS policy areas and not contact HMG directly in relation to client work for a 3 - 6 month period. |