July 2023 to September 2023 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.
July to September 2023
Full name of applicant: Peter Swift
Title of former Civil Service role: Counter Extremism and Non School Education Deputy Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 31 March 2023
New employer: Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Member of Education Advisory Forum of the ISI - September 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Conditional appointment – for 2 years from Peter’s last day of Crown service, he can draw on his skills and experience gained from his time here, but must not, at any time, draw on any privileged information gained in office.
Full name of applicant: Dr Tim Leunig
Title of former Civil Service role: Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 18 July 2023
New employer: Public First economic and strategy consultancy
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Director - July 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved subject to the following conditions:
- Tim should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of himself or the organisation) any privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service
- Tim should only advise on policy matters from his time in office that have already been determined and made available publicly
- For two years from his last day in Crown service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government or any of its Arm’s Length Bodies on behalf of his new employers, nor should he make use of any contacts in the government and Crown service contacts to influence policy, secure business/funding or otherwise unfairly advantage his new employers