Business appointment rules, January to March 2023
Updated 8 March 2024
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at SCS1 and SCS2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing) - January to March 2023.
Tamsin Cooper
Title of former Civil Service role
Director of Diet, Obesity and Healthy Behaviours
Date left or retired from the Civil Service
17 March 2023
New employer
Forward Institute
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Director of Organisational Change starting 27 March 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
After Tamsin’s last day of service, she will not make use of privileged information, including for the purposes of lobbying obtained from her role in Defra at any time.
For a year after leaving Defra, Tamsin must apply for permission to take up any appointment which meets the criteria set out in the Business Appointment Rules.