Home Office: business appointment rules advice, October to December 2024
Updated 27 March 2025
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Franklin Hudson Roe
Full name of applicant
Franklin Hudson Roe
Title of former civil service role
Special advisor
Date left or retired from the civil service
5 July 2024
New employer
Seetec
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Advisor, September 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
Approved with the following conditions:
That for a period of two years from 5 July 2024, he;
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must not draw on privileged information available from his time in Crown Service
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must not use his Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for his new employer
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must not be directly involved with any work connected to the Home Office
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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.”
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must submit further applications should he wish to take up any additional appointments during this period, or if a conflict arises which would entail you working with officials or Ministers with whom you have had contact during his time in government
Steve Connell
Full name of applicant
Steve Connell
Title of former civil service role
Head of Quality Assurance and Testing
Date left or retired from the civil service
31 May 2024
New employer
Advance QA Ltd
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Self-employed director, 20 August 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
Approved subject to the conditions that, for two years after leaving Crown Service:
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he is not directly involved in any work connected to the Home Office, and he must not use his Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for his Limited Company
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in addition, for two years after leaving the Civil Service he should not become personally involved in lobbying government, nor should he draw on privileged information available to you from his time in Crown Service