Transparency data

BEIS: business appointment rules advice, July to September 2022

Published 15 December 2022

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.

Alexis Castillo-Soto

Full name of applicant	Alexis Castillo-Soto
Title of former civil service role	Deputy Director of Digital & Data, SCS PB1
Date left / retired from the civil service	4 November 2022
New employer	TSO (The Stationery Office) (a Williams Lea company)
New appointment / employment (including when taken up)	Director of Digital Services, 7 November 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Alexis should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to them from their time in Crown service. Alexis continues to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance in the future to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation.

Stephen Hodgson

Full name of applicant	Stephen Hodgson
Title of former civil service role	Head of Digital and Alternatives to Regulation, SCS PB1
Date left / retired from the civil service	29 April 2022
New employer	Propylon Ltd
New appointment / employment (including when taken up)	Short term Research Project of three months duration, 12 September 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Stephen should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service. Stephen continues to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance in the future to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. For one year from Stephen’s last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK Government on behalf of his new employer and/or its clients.

Stephen Jones

Full name of applicant	Stephen Jones
Title of former civil service role	Director, Cities and Local Growth Unit, SCS PB2
Date left / retired from the civil service	2 October 2022
New employer	Manchester City Council
New appointment / employment (including when taken up)	Director, Core Cities UK, 3 October 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Stephen does not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themselves or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to them from their time in Crown service. For 12 months from Stephen’s last day in Crown service, Stephen should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Manchester City Council (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). This is not intended to prevent Stephen from undertaking the duties in the new role. However, it would prevent Stephen from making use, directly or indirectly of his contacts in the government and/or Crown service to unfairly secure funding or otherwise unfairly benefit Manchester City Council, its parent companies, subsidiaries, partners or clients. Stephen continues to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for two years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation.