Transparency data

HMRC's business appointment rules advice, October to December 2019

Published 26 March 2020

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 Andrew Sackey
Title of former civil service role Deputy Director, Wales West and Northern Ireland
Date left the civil service 31 December 2019
New employer Pinsent Masons LLP
New appointment/employment (including when taken up) ‎Partner, 1 January 2020
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 seek to use personal contacts in HMRC to gain special access to the Department for the purposes of gaining privileged insight of the development of tax or compliance policy. For a period of 2 years from your last day of service, the following conditions also apply: you should not draw on any privileged information obtained as a Crown Servant; you should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of your new employer or their clients. This restriction does not include participation in public and/or open consultation exercises.