Home Office: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2023
Updated 29 August 2024
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Allan Nixon
Full name of applicant: Allan Nixon
Title of former civil service role: Parliamentary SpAd to the Home Secretary and Policy SpAd to the Minister of State for Security
Date left/retired from the civil service: 6 January 2023
New employer: Fujitsu UK
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): 9 January 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with the conditions that for 2 years after leaving Crown Service:
- he is not directly involved in any work connected to the Home Office, nor use your Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for Fujitsu UK
- he should not become personally involved in lobbying government on behalf of Fujitsu UK, nor should he draw on privileged information available from his time in Crown Service
During the remainder of his time with the Home Office (after the application was completed and before he left Home Office), he must have no dealings with any commercial issues relating to the work of Fujitsu or any of its competitors.
Sadeea Magee
Full name of applicant: Sadeea Magee
Title of former civil service role: Deputy Director, Reward, ER and Change
Date left/retired from the civil service: 2 January 2023
New employer: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): 4 January 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with conditions:
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, you should not work on any contracts with government
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, you should not engage in any lobbying of ministers, special advisers or government officials
- that you should not draw on privileged information available to you from your time in Crown Service
Harry Mathley
Full name of applicant: Harry Methley
Title of former civil service role: Special Advisor to the Home Secretary
Date left/retired from the civil service: 6 September 2022
New employer: Connect Communications
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): 3 January 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with conditions:
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, he should not work on any contracts or accounts with government
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, he should not engage in any lobbying of ministers, special advisers or government officials
- that he should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service