April 2016 to March 2017 business appointment rules
Updated 21 March 2024
Applies to England
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the Department for Education at senior civil servant (SCS) band 1 and SCS band 2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing), and which fall within the scope of the business appointment rules.
January to March 2017
Full name of applicant: George Looker
Title of former Civil Service role: Special Advisor
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 14 July 2016
Date of new appointment or employment: 9 January 2017
New employer and job title: A.T. Kearnery Management Consultants, Senior Business Analyst
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with following restrictions: He should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service; and for 12 months, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of his new employer and its clients.
Full name of applicant: Almudena Lara
Title of former Civil Service role: Deputy Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 18 January 2017
Date of new appointment or employment: 6 January 2017
New employer and job title: NSPCC, Head of Policy and Public Affairs
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with following restrictions: She should not draw on privileged information available to her from your time in Crown Service; and for 6 months, she should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of her new employer and its clients.
Full name of applicant: Anne Casey
Title of former Civil Service role: Deputy Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 31 January 2017
Date of new appointment or employment: 18 February 2017
New employer and job title: New Schools Network, Consultant
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with the restriction that Anne will not lobby the DfE for 12 months.
Full name of applicant: Anna Paige
Title of former Civil Service role: Deputy Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: Career break from 21 February 2017
Date of new appointment or employment: 6 February 2017
New employer and job title: United Learning (whilst on career break from DfE), Director of Strategy and Performance
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved.
October to December 2016
Full name of applicant: Luke Tryl
Title of former Civil Service role: Special Adviser
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 13 July 2016
Date of new appointment or employment: 17 October 2016
New employer and job title: Public Policy Projects, 17 October 2016: employed to provide briefing on Brexit and the Pharma Industry, 29 November 2016: appointed Director
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Both applications were approved (on 21 October 2016 and 25 November 2016 respectively) subject to the following conditions: He should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service; and for 12 months, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of his new employer and its clients.
July to September 2016
Full name of applicant: Claudine Menashe-Jones
Title of former Civil Service role: Operations Director for the Academies Programme
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 16 June 2016
Date of new appointment or employment: 1 September 2016
New employer and job title: King’s Group (2 days a week), Innovation Unit (part time)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Condition that for 6 months from her last day of service, Claudine should not become personally involved in lobbying the Department for Education on behalf of her new employer.
Full name of applicant: David McVean
Title of former Civil Service role: Deputy Director, Academy Operations (Central)
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 30 September 2016
New employer and job title: E-ACT – Academy Trust, to work with trustees and senior management in setting the strategic direction of the internal audit function as its remit is broadened to include every area of the organisation.
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Endorsed.
April to June 2016
During the period April to June 2016, the Department for Education did not issue any decisions on applications submitted under the business appointment rules.