DHSC: business appointment rules advice, January to March 2025
Published 26 June 2025
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the Department of Health and Social Care at Senior Civil Service (SCS) levels SCS1 and SCS2 and equivalents. This includes special advisers of equivalent standing.
Christina Smith
Full name of applicant: Christina Smith
Title of former Civil Service role: Departmental Financial Planning, Analysis and Management
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 2 March 2025
New employer: Cheadle Hulme School
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Director of Finance, 3 March 2025
Department’s decision on application
Confirmed with the following restrictions applied:
- no work on government contracts for a period of one year from leaving government
- no lobbying government for one year from leaving government
- a reminder that privileged information should not be used from the time of being in government to further interests outside government
Deborah Stark
Full name of applicant: Deborah Stark
Title of former Civil Service role: Regional Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 31 March 2024
New employer: not applicable
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): consultancy work, January 2025
Department’s decision on application
Approved unconditionally.
Peter Wilson
Full name of applicant: Peter Wilson
Title of former Civil Service role: Special Adviser to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Communications)
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 30 May 2024
New employer: Schillings Communications
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Communications Adviser, 10 March 2025
Department’s decision on application
Confirmed with the following restrictions applied:
- no work on government contracts for a period of one year from leaving government
- no lobbying government for one year from leaving government
- a reminder that privileged information should not be used from the time of being in government to further interests outside government