Transparency data

Home Office: business appointment rules advice, October to December 2019

Updated 29 August 2024

The Home Office received 1 business appointment rules application for the period October to December 2019.

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 Hanbury Strategy, M+C Saatchi, Palmantir Technologies
New appointment/employment (including when taken up) Consultancy with these companies commenced on 1 November 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.”