January 2025 to March 2025 business appointment rules
Updated 27 June 2025
Applies to England
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January to March 2025
This page provides information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the Department for Education.
It covers former staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2 and equivalents that fall within the scope of the聽business appointment rules. It also covers special advisers of equivalent level.
Full name of applicant: Andrew Warren
Title of former Civil Service role: Regional Director for the West Midlands
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 6 January 2025
New employer: Bath and Wells Diocese/Chester Diocese
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Chair of Trustees, 19 November 2024
Department鈥檚 decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied):
Approved with the following conditions:
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Andrew should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of the new organisation) any privileged information available from the time in Crown service which is not within the public domain
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should only advise on policy matters from the time in office that have already been determined and made available publicly
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for 2 years from the last day in Crown service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the Department for Education, its arm鈥檚 length bodies or any previous department where he has on behalf of the new employers, nor should he make use of any existing contacts in the government (regardless of where they may now work in government), to unfairly advantage his new employers
Full name of applicant: Charlotte Briscall
Title of former Civil Service role: Chief Digital Officer
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 28 February 2025
New employer: The Royal Free London NHS Trust
New appointment or employment (including when taken up): Chief Digital Information Officer, 1 March 2025
Department鈥檚 decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with the recommendation that for 2 years from Charlotte鈥檚 last day of Crown service, she can draw on her skills and experience gained from her time here, but must not, at any time, draw on any privileged information gained in office.
Full name of applicant: Alyson Gerner
Title of former Civil Service role: Finance Director
Date left or retired from the Civil Service: 31 March 2025
New employer: LocatED Property Ltd
New appointment or employment (including when taken up) Finance Director, 1 April 2025
Department鈥檚 decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied): Approved with no conditions