Home Office: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2024
Updated 29 August 2024
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Michael Stott
Full name of applicant: Michael Stott
Title of former civil service role: Parliamentary Special Adviser to the Home Secretary
Date left/retired from the civil service: 13 November 2023
New employer: Portland Communications
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): Partner, Public Relations and Public Affairs, Portland Communications. 5 February 2024.
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved, subject to following conditions:
1. They do not use his Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for new employer.
2. They do not draw on privileged information available to them from their time in Crown Service.
3. They do not become involved directly in any work connected to the Home Office, nor become personally involved in lobbying government for a period of 2 years from the date of leaving office.
Dominique Hardy
Full name of applicant: Dominique Hardy
Title of former civil service role: Head of Visit Visas and International
Date left/retired from the civil service: 15 January 2024
New employer: TLS Contact
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): Account Director (Australia) and Service Development, TLScontact. 4 March 2024.
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved, subject to following conditions:
a) Must not draw on or disclose privileged information available to their from her time in Crown Service.
b) Must not be directly involved with any work connected to the Home Office.
c) Must not lobby government. As defined in the business appointment rules, this specifically means not “engaging in communication with government (including ministers, special advisers and officials/public office holders) – wherever it takes place – with a view to influencing a government decision, policy or contract award/grant in relation to their own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which they are employed, or to whom they are contracted or with whom they hold office. This does not prohibit contacts, including at a social or party-political level which is unrelated to such lobbying.”
d) Must submit further applications should they wish to take up any additional appointments during this period, or if a conflict arises which would entail them working with officials or ministers with whom they had had contact during her time in government.