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Business appointment rules return - June 2025

Published 25 September 2025

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PRO FORMA FOR TRANSPARENCY INFORMATION ABOUT OUTSIDE APPOINTMENTS OR EMPLOYMENT TAKEN UP BY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AT SCS1 AND SCS2 LEVEL AND EQUIVALENTS INCLUDING SPECIAL ADVISERS OF EQUIVALENT STANDING

  • Transparency about the advice given on individual applications under the Business Appointment Rules helps to ensure the maintenance of a high level of compliance.
  • The Rules require departments to publish on their websites summary information about the advice they give to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents, including special advisers of equivalent standing.
  • This follows the approach adopted by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments which publishes information on the advice it gives on applications from SCS3 level and above and equivalents, including special advisers of equivalent standing – see http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/
  • Published information should include the following details:
    • Full name of the applicant, and title of their former Civil Service role;
    • Date applicant left/retired from the Civil Service;
    • The applicant’s new employment or appointment, including when taken up;
    • Summary of the department’s decision on the applicant’s application, including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied.
  • Departments may wish to use the pro forma overleaf for this purpose.
  • It is important that departments do not publish any information until the applicant has taken up the appointment or employment, or it has been publicly announced.
  • No information should be published where the applicant does not take up a proposed appointment or employment.
  • Applicants should be informed about publication and be given the opportunity to check the text before it goes live on the website.

PRO FORMA FOR TRANSPARENCY INFORMATION ABOUT OUTSIDE APPOINTMENTS OR EMPLOYMENT TAKEN UP BY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AT SCS1 AND SCS2 LEVEL AND EQUIVALENTS (INCLUDING SPECIAL ADVISERS OF EQUIVALENT STANDING)

Full Name of Applicant Ian Corfield
Title of Former Civil Service Role Chancellor Adviser on International Investment Summit
Date Left/Retired from the Civil Service 01/11/2024
New Employer Secure Trust Bank
New Appointment/Employment (including when taken up) CEO (June 2025)
Department’s Decision on Application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) Ian must not draw on any privileged information which was available to him from his time in HM Treasury, nor use contacts gained from his time in HM Treasury to further his private interests or the interests of others.
  Following his last day of Crown Service a lobbying ban of one year applies where he must not lobby HM Government.
  For one year following his last day of Crown Service Ian should not provide advice to his new employer on the terms of, or with regard to the subject matter of a bid with, or contract relating directly to the work of HM Government.
  For one year following his last day of Crown Service he should not have any direct engagement with HM Government on behalf of his new employer.
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