HMRC's business appointment rules advice, January to March 2022
Updated 12 April 2023
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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 | David Jones |
| Title of former civil service role | Head of Network Services |
| Date left the civil service | 1 April 2022 |
| New employer | Arista Network UK Ltd |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Systems Engineer, 1 April 2022 |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | HMRC approved this application with the following conditions: You will not become involved in, nor use your internal HMRC network to proactively lobby the UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers (you may, however, take part in public consultations on the same basis as anyone else); Maintain the confidentiality you signed and agreed to on your appointment to the Senior Civil Service, particularly the Official Secrets Act 1989 and the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 |
| Full name of applicant | Ian Valentine |
| Title of former civil service role | Strategic Lead, Litigation Strategy Team |
| Date left the civil service | 17 February 2022 |
| New employer | Deloitte UK |
| New appointment/employment (including when taken up) | Director - Business Tax Team, 4 April 2022 |
| Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied) | HMRC approved this application with the following conditions. The Application has been approved with the condition that for a period of 2 years from your last day in service, you must: not be involved in any case or risk issue with which you had prior involvement, within the last 6 years, whilst working for HMRC; including (but not limited to) any businesses that were a Deloitte client at the time of your involvement, or issues about which you have a particular knowledge of the risk due to your involvement, that of your team, or because of your seat on governance bodies or steering groups; not provide advice in your new role that draws on the knowledge and understanding gained from your participation in internal HMRC work that is still under development and/or not yet in the public domain; not become involved in, nor use your internal HMRC network to proactively lobby UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers (you may, however, take part in public consultations on the same basis as anyone else); maintain the confidentiality you signed and agreed to on your appointment to the Senior Civil Service, particularly the Official Secrets Act 1989 and the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 |