Transparency data

April 2022 to June 2022 business appointment rules

Updated 28 November 2024

Applies to England

Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the Department for Education at senior civil servant (SCS) band 1 and SCS band 2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing), and which fall within the scope of the business appointment rules.

April to June 2022

Full name of applicant: Innes Taylor

Title of former Civil Service role: special adviser

Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 18 September 2020

Date of new appointment or employment: 19 April 2022

New employer and job title: Better Local Ltd, campaign director

Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): approved – no conditions applied.

Full name of applicant: Michael Goldstein

Title of former Civil Service role: deputy director and head of news

Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 22 April 2022

Date of new appointment or employment: April 2022

New employer and job title: Teneo, associate director

Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): conditional approval – Michael should not draw on privileged information available from his time in Crown Service and, during his appointment with Teneo, should not become personally involved in lobbying the government on behalf of his new employer or its clients.

Lobbying in this context means “the former civil servant should not engage in communication with government (including ministers, special advisers and officials) with a view to influencing a government decision or policy in relation to their own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which they are employed, or to whom they are contracted.”