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CMA: Business Appointment Rules advice, July to September 2023
Published 14 December 2023
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| Full name of applicant | David Dorrell |
|---|---|
| Title of former Civil Service role | Director of Data Science |
| Date left/retired from the Civil Service | 18 August 2023 |
| New employer | Frontier Economics |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Head of Data Science, commencing 4 September 2023 |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | Appointment approved subject to the following: 1. that unless the CMA otherwise consents, he shall not undertake, for a period of 2 years from his last day in the Civil Service, any work on the following matters (including any work closely related to such matters): Optum/EMIS merger investigation; online reviews enforcement proceedings (Amazon and Google); Amazon Marketplace CA98 investigation; 2. that, unless the CMA otherwise consents, he shall not undertake, for a period of 22 months from his last day in the Civil Service, any work directly related to the CMA’s initial review into AI foundation models. He also has also been reminded of his on-going obligations of non-disclosure of information received during his time at the CMA, namely that he must: continue to comply with the duty of confidentiality and other obligations as provided for in the Civil Service Code, the Official Secrets Act 1989, and under the terms of his appointment with the CMA; not disclose any information acquired during the applicant’s employment with the CMA which is protected by Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002; not use or in any way disclose information acquired during the applicant’s employment with the CMA which is subject to legal professional privilege, including both legal advice privilege and litigation privilege; not use or disclose, any confidential information obtained while working on the matters referred to in points 1 and 2 above. The BARs apply for 2 years from his last day of service and during this time, if he intends to take on other paid or unpaid roles, he will need to contact the CMA to make a new application under BARs regarding the new role/s. |