Transparency data

BEIS: business appointment rules advice, April to June 2018

Published 18 October 2018

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.

Katherine Anne Courtney

Full name of applicant Katherine Anne Courtney
Title of former Civil Service role Director, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (SCS PB2)
Date left/ retired from the Civil Service 30 June 2017
New employer KCourtney Business Innovation & Strategy (Consultancy)
New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) Independent business advice/mentoring for:

- Arqit Foundation (15 July 2018)

- PrimarySpace (17 April 2018)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) The application is approved with the following conditions:

- for 2 years from Ms Courtney’s last day of service, she must seek confirmation from the department that each individual commission is permissible under the terms of her consultancy before taking it up. If, after enquiry, the department takes the view that a commission is, or may be, outside the terms of the consultancy she will be expected to submit a fresh application

- Ms Courtney should not draw on privileged information available to her from her time in Crown service