Business appointment rules, July 2024 to September 2024
Updated 30 January 2025
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Appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at SCS1 and SCS2 level.
Siôn McGeever
Title of former Civil Service role
Deputy Director - Access, Landscapes, Peatland and Soils
Date left or retired from the Civil Service
22 November 2024
New employer
South Downs National Park Authority
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Chief Executive, taken up on 25 November 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
Application was approved with the following conditions.
The applicant must not:
- make use of privileged information, including for the purposes of lobbying, obtained from your role in Defra at any time
- disclose any commercially sensitive information or information that is not published and freely available in the public domain
The applicant must abide by the standard business appointment rules for 2 years.