April 2022 to June 2022 business appointment rules
Updated 29 August 2024
Applies to England
Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the Department for Education at senior civil servant (SCS) band 1 and SCS band 2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing), and which fall within the scope of the business appointment rules.
April to June 2022
Full name of applicant: Innes Taylor
Title of former Civil Service role: special adviser
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 18 September 2020
Date of new appointment or employment: 19 April 2022
New employer and job title: Better Local Ltd, campaign director
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): approved – no conditions applied.
Full name of applicant: Michael Goldstein
Title of former Civil Service role: deputy director and head of news
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 22 April 2022
Date of new appointment or employment: April 2022
New employer and job title: Teneo, associate director
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): conditional approval – Michael should not draw on privileged information available from his time in Crown Service and, during his appointment with Teneo, should not become personally involved in lobbying the government on behalf of his new employer or its clients.
Lobbying in this context means “the former civil servant should not engage in communication with government (including ministers, special advisers and officials) with a view to influencing a government decision or policy in relation to their own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which they are employed, or to whom they are contracted.”