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DfT: business appointment rules advice – April to June 2026
Published 24 September 2026
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Danny Williams
| Full name of applicant | Danny Williams |
|---|---|
| Title of former Civil Service Role | Director, Better Connected Strategy |
| Date left/retired from the Civil Service | 31 May 2026 |
| New employer | Strat-edgy LLP |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | 1 June 2026 |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | • you should not draw upon (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 Department for Transport (or any of its arms length bodies) on behalf of Strat-edgy LLP, their clients, partners or subsidiaries; nor should you make use, directly or indirectly, of your contacts in government and/or Crown service, or contacts developed during Crown Service in other governments or organisations, 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 2 years from your last day in Crown Service, you should not provide advice to any company or organisation in the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of, a bid or contract relating directly to the work of the Department for Transport (DfT) or its arm’s length bodies. This includes being named as part of the project team for any bid to be submitted to DfT during this period, unless specifically requested and agreed by DfT for particular activities only. This condition does not preclude you from working with companies or public bodies on the development of their own strategies or policies, or on the implementation of published government policy, provided that such work does not involve advising on, or supporting, bids, contracts, funding submissions, or engagement strategies with DfT or its arm’s length bodies. |