BEIS: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2020
Published 30 July 2020
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
This covers former staff at Senior Civil Service payband 1 (SCS1) and payband 2 (SCS2) levels. It also covers special advisers of equivalent level.
Peter Betts
| Full name of applicant | Peter Betts |
|---|---|
| Title of former civil service role | Director, International Climate and Energy Directorate (SCS PB2) |
| Date left/retired from civil service | 16 October 2018 |
| New employer | Inevitable Policy Response Initiative |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Strategic Adviser (Part-time) (February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Betts should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
| New employer | The World Bank |
|---|---|
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Senior Adviser (Part-time) (February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Betts should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
| New employer | Climate Advisers |
|---|---|
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Adviser (Part-time) (February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Betts should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
| New employer | Vivid Economics |
|---|---|
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Consultant (Part-time) (February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Betts should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
| New employer | The Elders |
|---|---|
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Adviser (Part-time) (February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Betts should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
Joshua Buckland
| Full name of applicant | Joshua Buckland |
|---|---|
| Title of former civil service role | Deputy Director, Specialist Policy Advisor (SCS PB1) |
| Date left/retired from civil service | 3 January 2020 |
| New employer | Flint Global |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Associate Director (6 January 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Buckland should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service |
Matthew Scott
| Full name of applicant | Matthew Scott |
|---|---|
| Title of former civil service role | Deputy Director, Head of Green Finance (SCS PB1) |
| Date left/retired from civil service | 31 December 2019 |
| New employer | Willis Towers Watson |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Senior Director, Sustainable Finance (3 February 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mr Scott should not draw on privileged information available to him during his secondment from the Bank of England. If Mr Scott takes up employment with another organisation within one year of the secondment ending, he should inform the Department before entering into any firm commitment |
Miranda Craig
| Full name of applicant | Miranda Craig |
|---|---|
| Title of former civil service role | Deputy Director, Secretariat, Independent Review into the Quality and Effectiveness of Audit (SCS PB1) |
| Date left/retired from civil service | 31 January 2020 |
| New employer | Financial Reporting Council |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Director of Strategy and Change (3 March 2020) |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Mrs Craig should not draw on privileged information available to her from her time in Crown Service |