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Hancock, Matt - Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care - ACOBA advice

Advice to Matt Hancock, former Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care, on business appointments after leaving Crown service

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Letter reporting breach of the Rules

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Correspondence between ACOBA and Matthew Hancock regarding two television series - ITV’s ‘I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here’ and Channel 4’s ‘SAS Who Dares Wins’

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Advice letter: Matt Hancock, Special Representative on Financial Innovation and Climate Change, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

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Matt Hancock left his role as Secretary of State in June 2021.

ITV’s ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’ and Channel 4’s ‘SAS Who Dares Wins’

ACOBA exchanged correspondence with Matt Hancock about his failure to seek advice in relation to signing up for two television series - ITV’s ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’ and Channel 4’s ‘SAS Who Dares Wins’. Read the correspondence between Matt Hancock and ACOBA. An accessible version of the correspondence is available here.

ACOBA reported this breach to government. An accessible version of the correspondence is available here. The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster responded on behalf of government. An accessible version of the correspondence is available here.

Director, Centre for Neurodiversity

Matt Hancock sought the Committee’s advice about taking up an appointment with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The letter containing the Committee’s consideration and the conditions imposed on the appointment was sent in August 2022; and the appointment was taken up later that month. An accessible version of the letter is available here.

Special Representative on Financial Innovation and Climate Change, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Matt Hancock sought the Committee’s advice about taking up an appointment with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

The letter containing the Committee’s consideration and the conditions imposed on the appointment was sent in October 2021; and the appointment was taken up later that month. An accessible version of the letter is available here.

Published 13 October 2021
Last updated 21 December 2022 + show all updates
  1. Correspondence from The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, added.

  2. Correspondence between ACOBA and Matt Hancock

  3. First published.