Home Office: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2021
Updated 29 August 2024
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Salma Shah
Full name of applicant: Salma Shah
Title of former civil service role: Special Adviser to the Home Secretary
Date left/retired from the civil service: 25 July 2019
New appointments: Portland Communications
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): 25 July 2019
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): For 2 years after leaving Crown Service you are not directly involved in any work connected to the Home Office nor use your Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for these companies or their clients. In addition for 2 years after leaving the civil service you should not become personally involved in lobbying government on behalf of these companies or their clients nor should you draw on privileged information available to you from your time in Crown Service.