Transparency data

DSIT: business appointment rules advice, January 2023 to April 2024

Published 29 August 2024

January 2024 to April 2024

Full name of applicant	Blake Bower
Title of former Civil Service role	Director; Digital Economy Unit
Date left/retired from the Civil Service	14 April 2024
New employer	IBM
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs. 15 April 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). You do not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown service. You continue to review the business appointment rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for 2 years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. For one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the current UK Government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients); nor should you make use directly or indirectly, of contacts in the government and/or Crown service to influence policy, secure business/funding or otherwise unfairly advantage IBM (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). However, this does not preclude you from interacting with the UK Government, provided that it is related to the work of IBM on matters aligned with government policy. In addition, this does not prohibit you from contacting the Department as part of building and maintaining any day-to-day relationships with government.

October 2023 to December 2023

Full name of applicant	Dr Caroline Fenwick
Title of former Civil Service role	Deputy Director, Onshoring
Date left/Retired from the Civil Service	31 March 2023
New employer	Science Developments Ltd.
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Associate Director (1 August 2023)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	You do not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown service. For one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of your new employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). Furthermore, as noted in your application you should make fresh applications on specific assignments as they arise. It is advised that you continue to review the business appointment rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for 2 years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation.

July 2023 to September 2023

DSIT did not issue any decision on any application submitted under the business appointment rules.

January 2023 to June 2023

Previous data was published under the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). See data for January to June 2023.