January 2024 to March 2024 business appointment rules
Updated 29 August 2024
Applies to England
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of Department for Education at SCS1 and SCS2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing), and which fall within the scope of the Business Appointment Rules.
January to March 2024
Full Name of Applicant: Hannah Woodhouse
Title of former Civil Service role: Deputy Director – South West RSC team
Date left/retired from the Civil Service: 19 February 2024
New employer: Bristol City Council
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): Executive Director of Children’s Services, 20 February 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with the following condition:
- That for the first 2 years of employment with Bristol City Council, Hannah cannot use privileged information that she might have obtained during her time with DfE
Full Name of Applicant: Kirsty Evans
Title of former Civil Service role: Director – Regions and Providers
Date left/retired from the Civil Service: 22 March 2024
New employer: Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
New appointment/Employment (including when taken up): Executive Principal, 25 March 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with the following conditions:
- Kirsty should be recused from any regulatory or contract-based activity involving CITB with immediate effect. She must not discuss or disclose any sensitive information held within the department about the organisation with the organisation. On joining CITB, she must not be involved in any regulatory work with DfE which commenced prior to her joining
- Kirsty should be recused from regulatory or contract based decisions involving CITB’s competitors where that activity is or has the potential to be novel, contentious or repercussive
- She should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of the new organisation) any privileged information available from the time in Crown service which is not within the public domain
- Where the organisation has existing contracts with DfE there would be no restrictions in place around managing that activity as long it involves standard agreements and processes. Likewise, Kirsty will also be free to engage in tender exercises using standard publicly available processes only and should not make use of existing contacts in any exercise
- She should only advise on policy matters from the time in office that have already been determined and made available publicly
- For 2 years from the last day in Crown service, she should not become personally involved in lobbying DfE, its arm’s length bodies or any previous department where she has on behalf of the new employers, nor should she make use of any existing contacts in the government (regardless of where they may now work in government), to unfairly advantage her new employers