Transparency data

DSIT: business appointment rules advice 2025

Updated 25 September 2025

April 2025 to June 2025

Full name of applicant	Imran Faisal Shafi
Title of former Civil Service role	Director, AI Opportunities / AI Policy
Date left/Retired from the Civil Service	1 June 2025
New employer	NScale – in due course Scale UK when established
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Chief Strategy Officer (TBC)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	On reviewing your application, the department has approved the above appointment subject to the conditions that: - For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). - You do not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown service. - You continue to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for two years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. - You will be recused from all live policy discussions immediately. - For one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the current UK government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients); nor should you make use directly or indirectly, of contacts in the government and/or Crown service to influence policy, secure business/funding or otherwise unfairly advantage NScale (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). However, this does not preclude you from interacting with the UK government, provided that it is related to the work of NScale on matters aligned with government policy. In addition, this does not prohibit you from contacting the department as part of building and maintaining any day-to-day relationships with government.

Full name of applicant	Charlie Ogilvie
Title of former Civil Service role	DD Strategy Planning and Insights
Date left/Retired from the Civil Service	May 2025
New employer	Universities UK
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	Deputy Director Policy
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	- For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). - You do not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown service. This especially relates to information the spending review and negotiations with HMT on R&D funding, which would be of interest to your new organisation. - You continue to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for 2 years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. - You will be recused immediately from all live discussions or conversations that might relate to decisions relevant for your future role. - For 6 months/one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients); nor should you make use directly or indirectly, of contacts in the government and/or Crown service to influence policy, secure business/funding or otherwise unfairly advantage [Insert Company Name] (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). However, this does not preclude you from interacting with the UK government, provided that it is related to the work of [Insert Company Name] on matters aligned with government policy. In addition, this does not prohibit you from contacting the Department as part of building and maintaining any day-to-day relationships with government. Lobbying in this context means that “the former civil servant should not engage in communication with government - including Minsters, special advisers and officials - with a view to influencing a government decision or policy in relation to their own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which they are employed, or to whom they are contracted”.

January 2025 to March 2025

Full name of applicant	Daisy McGregor
Title of former Civil Service role	Deputy Director, AI International Policy
Date left/Retired from the Civil Service	28 February 2025
New employer	Anthropic
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)	External Affairs (London), Policy Division (18 March 2025)
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	On reviewing your application, the Department has approved the above appointment subject to the conditions that:  - For the remainder of your time in Crown Service, you should not be involved in commercial discussions that could, in future, involve your prospective employer (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). - You do not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of themself or the persons or organisations to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time in Crown service. - You continue to review the Business Appointment Rules guidance before accepting any new appointment or employment for 2 years after leaving the Civil Service to ensure that there is no cause for justified public concern, criticism or misinterpretation. - You will be recused from all live policy discussions immediately. - You will refrain from engaging with the UK government for 3 months following your last day in the department. - For one year from your last day of service, you should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of your new employer and/or its clients (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients) on policies that would benefit Anthropic in particular, to secure business/funding or to secure contracts that would otherwise unfairly advantage Anthropic (including parent companies, subsidiaries, partners and clients). - This does not preclude you from interacting with the UK government, building and maintaining relationships with the UK government, sharing Anthropic’s research and insights, working on all aspects of the MoU recently agreed between the UK government and Anthropic (including working with the government to evolve ideas for further collaborations and future work as outlined in the MoU), and working with the UK government on any other areas where the interests of the UK government and Anthropic are aligned.