HMRC's business appointment rules advice, April to June 2024
Published 28 November 2024
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at SCS1 and SCS2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing).
| Full name of applicant | Gillian Bates |
| Title of former civil service role | Deputy Director CDIO EPS Run Digital Platforms |
| Date left the civil service | 30 April 2024 |
| New employer | Mercator Digital |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Head of Transformation, 1 May 2024 |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | HMRC approved this application with the following conditions. For a period of 2 years from your last day in service, you must: Not draw on any privileged information obtained as a Crown Servant that is not in the public domain; Not become involved in, nor use your internal HMRC network to proactively lobby UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of your new employer or any of its clients; Not approach HMRC staff with an offer of employment without a robust recruitment/interview process taking place; Not be involved in bidding, either directly or via coaching of Mercator Digital staff, for any work with HMRC; Not use your network within the department or government to gain information that could be seen as advantageous to Mercator Digital, Eviden, Opencast or Accenture; Not be involved with any aspect of Mercator Digital, Eviden, Opencast or Accenture’s service delivery to HMRC or any other UK Government Department; Not discuss any of the commercially sensitive information you have had access to regarding Capgemini. |