Business appointment rules, July to September 2019
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) - July to September 2019.
Full name of applicant
Professor Sir Ian L Boyd
Title of former Civil Service role
Chief Scientific Adviser
Date left or retired from the Civil Service
28 August 2019
New employer
Fera science Limited
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Non-Executive Director, 29 August 2019
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
After the last day of service, Ian will not make use of privileged information, including for the purposes of lobbying, obtained from the role in Defra at any time.
Ian is subject to a two-year ban on lobbying the Government on behalf of the new employer.
For two years after leaving Defra, Ian must apply for permission to take up any appointment which meets the criteria set out in the Business Appointment Rules.