Transparency data

HMRC's business appointment rules advice, October to December 2023

Published 21 March 2024

Full name of applicant    Joanna Connew
Title of former civil service role    Programme Director, CDIO EPS Change
Date left the civil service    17 November 2023
New employer    Capgemini UK
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)   Engagement Manager, 20 November 2023
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)    Your application has been approved with conditions. For a period of 2 years from your last day in service, you must: not draw on any privileged information obtained as a Crown Servant that is not 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, on behalf of your new employer or any of its clients; not approach HMRC staff with an offer of employment without a robust recruitment/interview process taking place; not be involved in bidding, either directly or via coaching of Capgemini staff, for any work with HMRC; not use your network within the department or government to gain information that could be seen as advantageous to Capgemini; not discuss any of the commercially sensitive information you have had access to regarding IBM, Fujitsu or Accenture; not be involved with any aspect of Capgemini’s service delivery to HMRC.