Business appointment rules, January to March 2022
Updated 8 March 2024
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Transparency information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of the department at SCS1 and SCS2 level and equivalents (including special advisers of equivalent standing) - January to March 2022.
Jon Walker
Title of former Civil Service role
Strategic communications/external affairs
Date left or retired from the Civil Service
31 March 2022
New employer
Cranfield University
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Director of Communications, 4 April 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
After the last day of service:
- Jon will not make use of privileged information, including for the purposes of lobbying, obtained from their role in Defra at any time
- Jon will be asked to refrain from direct engagement with Defra for a period of 2 months
For 2 years after leaving Defra, Jon must apply for permission to take up any appointment which meets the criteria set out in the business appointment rules.
Simon Brockington
Title of former Civil Service role
Deputy Director for Marine Environment
Date left or retired from the Civil Service
23 January 2022
New employer
Office for Environmental Protection (OEP)
New appointment or employment (including when taken up)
Chief Insights Officer, 24 January 2022
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)
Simon should consider recusing themselves from any internal board or executive level discussions within OEP regarding any ‘complaints’ related to any matter of undecided or unpublished government policy which they have knowledge of for a period of 12 months.
Simon must not share any official information to which they have access in their current role that would not otherwise be available to the OEP.
Any work or analysis Simon undertakes as a member of the OEP must be based upon data or policy which are published and freely available in the public domain. This means that unpublished or unsubstantiated data, or policy in development which has had prior knowledge of or engagement in cannot form part of the OEP’s work.
For 2 years after leaving Defra, Simon must apply for permission to take up any appointment which meets the criteria set out in the business appointment rules.