DHSC: business appointment rules advice, July to September 2024
Published 30 January 2025
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at Senior Civil Service (SCS) levels SCS1 and SCS2 and equivalents. This includes special advisers of equivalent standing.
Robert Ede
Full name of applicant: Robert Ede
Title of former Civil Service role: Special Adviser
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 5 July 2024
New employer: Eli Lilly and Company (Northern Europe)
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Senior Director for Government Affairs and Communications, 16 September 2024
Department’s decision on application
Confirmed with the following restrictions applied:
- no work on government contracts for a period of 12 months from leaving government
- no lobbying government for 12 months from leaving government
- a reminder that privileged information should not be used from the time of being in government to further interests outside government
Lyn Romeo
Full name of applicant: Lyn Romeo
Title of former Civil Service role: Chief Social Worker
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 31 January 2024
New employer: ThinkAhead
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Trustee, 1 September 2024
Department’s decision on application
Confirmed with the following restrictions applied:
- no lobbying of the DHSC and its agencies
- no involvement in bids related to DHSC and its agencies