Transparency data

BEIS: business appointment rules advice, April to June 2017

Published 13 October 2017

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.

Edmund Hosker

Full name of applicant Edmund Hosker
Title of former Civil Service role Director, Special Projects (SCS2)
Date left/ retired from the Civil Service 30 April 2017
New employer International Energy Agency
New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) Part-time consultancy work contributing to the editing of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook (August 2017)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) Approved - The department has approved the above appointment with the following restrictions: Mr Hosker should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service; and for 2 years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of his new company or its employers/clients.

Rae Stewart

Full name of applicant Rae Stewart
Title of former Civil Service role Deputy Director, Government Communications Service (SCS1)
Date left/ retired from the Civil Service 31 August 2017
New employer Water UK
New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) (1 September 2017)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) Approved - The department has approved the above appointment with the following restrictions: Rae should not draw on privileged information available from his time in Crown service; and; and for 2 years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of his new company or its employers/clients.