Transparency data

DCMS Business Appointment Rules between July and September 2024

Updated 27 March 2025


Full name of applicant

Rita French

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

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.