Transparency data

DESNZ: business appointment rules advice, October to December 2023

Published 21 March 2024

Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

This covers former staff at Senior Civil Service payband 1 (SCS1) and payband 2 (SCS2) levels. It also covers special advisers of equivalent level.

Stuart Jefford

Full name of applicant	Stuart Jefford
Title of former civil service role	Co-DD, Energy Security
Date left / retired from the civil service	24 November 2023
New employer	LEGO Group
New appointment / employment (including when taken up)	Senior Director, Climate Strategy, 27 November 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). You should not draw on privileged information available to you from your time in the Crown Service. It is advised that you continue to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for two years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. For one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients.

Christopher Thackeray

Full name of applicant	Christopher Thackeray
Title of former civil service role	Deputy Director, Power CCUS
Date left / retired from the civil service	24 November 2023
New employer	Baringa
New appointment / employment (including when taken up)	Senior Manager, November 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer. Your access to the Ernst & Young (EY) fee structure should be restricted. You should not draw on privileged information available to you from your time in the Crown Service. It is advised that you continue to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for two years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. For 3 months from your last day in Crown service, you should not consult on behalf of Baringa (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients) on parties engaging in cluster negotiations on carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) or Hydrogen. For 6 months from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients. nor should you make use directly or indirectly, of contacts in the government and/or Crown service to influence policy, secure business/ funding or otherwise unfairly advantage Baringa (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). However, this does not preclude you from interacting with the UK government, providing that it is related to the work of Baringa on matters aligned with government policy. In addition, this does not prohibit you from contacting the department as part of building and maintaining any day-to-day relationships with government.