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Home Office: business appointment rules January to March 2026

Updated 25 June 2026

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Robert Hall

Full name of applicant: Robert Hall

Title of former civil service role: Director of Communications

Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 27th March 2026

New employer: City of London Corporation

New appointment/employment (including when taken up): Executive Director of Communications and Engagement – from 11th May 2026

Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied):

Application approved subject to the conditions that the applicant:

  1. Does not use his Whitehall contacts to influence policy or secure business for his new employer;
  2. Does not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown Service;
  3. Does not become involved directly in any work connected to the Home Office, including the development of policing policy, nor become personally involved in lobbying Government for a period of two years from the date of leaving office; and
  4. Must submit a new BAR application for any other proposed appointment or employment up to two years after leaving Crown Service.
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