Transparency data

DfT: business appointment rules advice - January to March 2022

Updated 19 October 2023

January to March 2022

Meera Vadher

Full name of applicant	Meera Vadher
Title of former Civil Service role	Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Transport
Date left the Civil Service	14 January 2022
New employer	Director, Flint Global
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	31 January 2022
Department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	• A prohibition of 12 months, following your last day of paid Civil Service employment 14 January 2022 upon your involvement in lobbying government on behalf of your new employer. • You should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself, your prospective employer or their clients, partners or subsidiaries) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown Service • For 2 years from your last day in Crown Service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government (or any of its arm’s length bodies) on behalf of your employer, their clients, partners or subsidiaries; nor should you make use, directly or indirectly, of your contacts in government and/or Crown service to influence government policy, or secure business or funding on their behalf • For 2 years from your last day in Crown Service, you should not provide advice to any company or organisation on the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of, a bid or contract relating directly to the work of the DfT or its arm’s length bodies

Neil Hart

Full name of applicant	Neil Hart
Title of former Civil Service role	Deputy Director, Head of Post Covid Contract Design, DfTc
Date left the Civil Service	14 January 2022
New employer	Ernst & Young
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Director, Corporate Finance, January 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	• a prohibition of 12 months, following your last day of paid Civil Service employment (14 January 2022) upon your involvement in lobbying government on behalf of your new employer. • you should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself or your prospective client or employer or their subsidiaries partners or clients) any information available to you from your time in Crown Service which could reasonably be perceived to give them an unfair advantage over competitors in the same market • you should not make use, directly or indirectly, of your government and/or Crown Service contacts, or contacts developed during Crown Service in other governments or organisations, to influence policy or secure funding or business on behalf of yourself or your prospective client or employer or their subsidiaries partners or clients for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service. This does not preclude routine contact on matters aligned with government policy • you should not provide advice to any company or organisation on the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of, a bid or procurement relating directly to the work of the DfT or its arm’s length bodies for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service • for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service you should not be directly involved in managing or overseeing contracts with, or having project control responsibility for work with companies relating to DfT led activity specifically relating to rail operating contracts. ‘Companies’ refers to your employer (EY) and its clients, including the Department for Transport (DfT) and its arm’s length bodies. Specifically: • rail operating contract design, procurement and evaluation • rail investment case appraisals and Rail/TOC business planning for DfT procurements • Managing public money and the procedures and frameworks for doing so • a prohibition of 12 months, following your last day of paid Civil Service employment (14 January 2022), working on client projects for DfT or its arm’s length bodies where your previous access to privileged information would confer an improper advantage. Explicit approval from DfT must be sought ahead of engaging on client projects for the DfT or its arm’s length bodies for 12 months from last of service.

Suzanne Edmond

Full name of applicant	Suzanne Edmond
Title of former Civil Service role	Director, Group Communications
Date left the Civil Service	31 March 2022
New employer	Moxy Communications
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Director, Moxy Communications, 1 April 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	• you should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself, your consultancy or clients) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown Service • for 2 years from your last day in Crown Service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying DfT (or any of its arm’s length bodies) on behalf of your consultancy or clients; nor should you make use, directly or indirectly, of your contacts in government and/or Crown service to influence government policy, or secure business or funding on their behalf. This does not preclude routine contact on matters aligned with government policy • for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service, you should not provide advice to any company or organisation on the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of, a bid or contract relating directly to the work of the DfT (or its arm’s length bodies) • for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service you should not be directly involved in managing or overseeing contracts with, or having project control responsibility for work with companies relating to DfT led activity unless specifically requested and agreed by the DfT for specific activities only

Lee Taylor

Full name of applicant	Lee Taylor
Title of former Civil Service role	Deputy Director, Head of Strategic Finance and Planning, DfTc
Date left the Civil Service	6 March 2022
New employer	National Highways
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Divisional Director, Finance Business Partners, 7 March 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	• a prohibition of 2 years, following your last day of paid Civil Service employment (6 March 2022) upon your involvement in lobbying government on behalf of your new employer.

Rachel Solomon Williams

Full name of applicant	Rachel Solomon Williams
Title of former Civil Service role	Deputy Director, Head of Low Carbon Fuels
Date left the Civil Service	20 February 2022
New employer	KPMG
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Associate Director, Low Carbon Fuels, March 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	• a prohibition of 2 years, following your last day of paid Civil Service employment (20 February 2022) upon your involvement in lobbying government on behalf of your new employer. Lobbying in this context means that you should not personally communicate with government (including ministers, special advisers and officials) as a representative of their new employer with a view to influencing a government decision or policy in relation to their interests or the organisation by which you are employed or to whom you are contracted. • you should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself or your prospective client or employer or their subsidiaries partners or clients) any information available to you from your time in Crown Service which could reasonably be perceived to give them an unfair advantage over competitors in the same market • you should not make use, directly or indirectly, of your government and/or Crown Service contacts, or contacts developed during Crown Service in other governments or organisations, to influence policy or secure funding or business on behalf of yourself or your prospective client or employer or their subsidiaries partners or clients for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service. This does not preclude routine contact on matters aligned with government policy. • you should not provide advice to any company or organisation on the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of, a bid or contract relating directly to the work of the DfT or its arm’s length bodies for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service • for 12 months from your last day in Crown Service (20 February 2022) you should not be directly involved in managing or overseeing contracts with, or having project control responsibility for work with companies relating to DfT led activity relating to low carbon fuels, unless specifically requested by the DfT for specific activities only