Civil Servants: Business Interests
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether former civil servants are required to make a business appointment rules application to undertake (a) temporary and (b) one-off items of work during the regulated period after their departure from Crown employment.
Answered by Georgia Gould
Civil servants at SCS payband 2 and below only have to make business appointment rules applications if their proposed role meets one of the seven triggers set out in the Rules. Civil servants at ACOBA level (SCS payband 3 and above) have to make an application for all roles that they wish to take up, including temporary roles.
ACOBA does not regard ‘one-off’ activities such as speeches, broadcasts, or newspaper articles to be in scope of the Rules. These rules and processes are the same as under the previous administration.
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