Home Office: business appointment rules April to June 2025
Updated 27 April 2026
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Dominique Hardy
Full name of applicant: Dominique Hardy
Title of former Civil Service role: Head of Visit Visas and International
Date left/retired from the Civil Service: 15 January 2024
New employer: Serco Asia Pacific
New appointment/employment (including when taken up): 7 April 2025
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): approved with the following conditions:
- Must not draw on or disclose privileged information available to her from her time in Crown Service.
- Must not be directly involved with any work connected to the Home Office.
- Must not lobby government. As defined in the business appointment rules, this specifically means not “engaging in communication with government (including ministers, special advisers and officials/public office holders) – wherever it takes place – with a view to influencing a government decision, policy or contract award/grant in relation to her own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which she is employed, or to whom she is contracted or with whom they hold office. This does not prohibit contacts, including at a social or party-political level which is unrelated to such lobbying.”
- Must submit further applications should she wish to take up any additional appointments during this period, or if a conflict arises which would entail her working with officials or ministers with whom you have had contact during your time in government.