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FCDO business appointment rules advice, April to June 2025
Updated 25 September 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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| Helen James | Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary | 30-May-24 | D'Angelin & Co | Director and board member, Investment Ban Boutique. 1 day a month, paid employment. The company advises large corporates on a range of issues around M&A, activism, corporate structures. April 2025 | 1) For 24 months following your last date of employment with 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 2) For 24 months following your last date of employment with 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 their 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 being 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 |
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