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FCDO business appointment rules advice, January to March 2025
Updated 26 June 2025
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| Full name of applicant | Title of former Civil Service role | Date left/retired from Civil Service | New employer | New appointment/employment | Department's decision on application |
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| Hugh Elliott | HM Ambassador to Spain and Andorra | Last day in role - 4th September 2024 Date of career break – 8th December 2024 | Employer- Iberdrola Energía Internacional | Role Title – Executive Chair Formally appointed on 19th December 24 Employment start date – 1st January 2025 | For the duration of 24 months following your departure from the FCDO, you should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself or the organisation to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time as a Civil Servant; and For the duration of 24 months following your departure from the FCDO, you should not become personally involved in lobbying HMG on behalf of your new employers. Lobbying in this context means that you should not engage in communication with Government (including Ministers, special advisers, and officials) with a view to influencing a government decision or policy in relation to your own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which you are employed, or to whom you are contracted. The lobbying ban is not seeking to prevent communications with Government, which might be described as in the normal course of business; for example, where the Government holds regular stakeholder events with an industry or sector, or where the purpose of any dealings is to take forward an existing Government policy or negotiations. |