Transparency data

BEIS: business appointment rules advice, July to September 2016

Published 16 December 2016

Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at Senior Civil Service payband 1 (SCS1) and payband 2 (SCS2) level and equivalents. This also covers special advisers of equivalent level.

Nicholas Crabtree

Full name of applicant Nicholas Crabtree
Title of former Civil Service role Strategic Delivery Director
Date left/ retired from the Civil Service 2 September 2016
New employer High Speed 2
New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) Head of Commercial, Central Commercial Function, Phase 1 (5 September 2016)
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: Nicholas 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.

Patrick Erwin

Full name of applicant Patrick Erwin
Title of former Civil Service role Head Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office
Date left/ retired from the Civil Service 3 March 2016
New employer INEOS Shale
New appointment/ employment (including when taken up) Business Development Manager (1 August 2016)
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: Patrick should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service; and for 1 year 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.