Transparency data
DCMS Business Appointment Rules between July and September 2024
Updated 27 March 2025
Full name of applicant |
Rita French |
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Title of former Civil Service role |
Ambassador at Large for Human Rights & Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva. - Policy Group - was on loan to UK Mission, Geneva, FCDO. |
Date left/retired from the Civil Service |
01/09/2024 |
New employer |
Geneva Centre for Security Policy. |
New appointment/employment (including when taken up) |
Executive-in-Residence - Global Fellowship Initiative. 01/10/2024 |
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) |
No official conditions but a request from FCDO, to remind Rita of the requirement for her to not call upon privileged info acquired in her Civil Service roles in her new work. |
Full name of applicant |
Joy Johnson |
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Title of former Civil Service role |
Deputy Director, Volunteering and Tackling Loneliness |
Date left/retired from the Civil Service |
31/05/2023 |
New employer |
This Day Foundation |
New appointment/employment (including when taken up) |
Independent Consultant |
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) |
Approved with the following conditions: 1) To require that the individual does not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of herself or the organisation they will be working for) any privileged information available to her from her time in Crown Service; and 2) Two years from her last day in office, she should not become personally involved in lobbying the government nor she should make use, directly or indirectly, of contacts developed in government and/or Whitehall to influence policy; secure business of funding; or to gain access to information. |