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Rules? What rules? The revolving door between government and business
The recent attempt to pretend that restrictions are really being placed on industry hiring government insiders as lobbyists and fixers is singularly unconvincing, writes SOLOMON HUGHES

THE latest Business Appointment Rules show the continued circulation of people from the Cabinet Office — the heart of government — to corporate lobbying.
The “Rules” are a half-hearted attempt to stop corporations getting influence when they hire government insiders.
When government staff — on what are called senior Civil Service grades 1 and 2 or SCS1 and SCS2 — leave departments, their new jobs have to be looked at under the Business Appointment Rules and agreed by the permanent secretary, the top official in the department.
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