Home Office: business appointment rules advice, July to September 2024
Updated 31 January 2025
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Rupert Shute
Full name of applicant: Rupert Shute
Title of former civil service role: Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser
Date left/retired from the Civil Service: 18 September 2024
New employer: Imperial College London
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): 1 October 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied):
Approved subject to the following conditions:
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, they must not work on any contracts with the government
- that for a period of 2 years after leaving Crown Service, they must not engage in any lobbying of ministers, special advisers or government officials
- that they must not draw on privileged information available to you from your time in Crown Service