Dataset
Revolving Door
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The revolving door refers to senior government officials and ministers leaving public service to take up roles in the private sector — often in industries they previously regulated or had influence over. These appointments are reviewed by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA), which can attach conditions such as waiting periods or restrictions on lobbying former colleagues.
Sarah Harrison
12 Oct 2025Chief Operating Officer
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Cabinet Office
Jo Churchill
10 Oct 2025Minister of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Work and Pensions
James Heappey
10 Oct 2025Minister of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Ministry of Defence
Anne Trevelyan
10 Oct 2025Marie - Minister of State for Indo - Pacific
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Simon Case
10 Oct 2025Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Paul Monks
10 Oct 2025Chief Scientific Adviser
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Robert Courts
10 Oct 2025Solicitor General
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Attorney General's Office
Crawford Falconer
10 Oct 2025Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Department for Business and Trade
Tariq Ahmad
10 Oct 2025Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, United Nations and the Commonwealth
New role: pending ACOBA publication
The Earl of Minto
10 Oct 2025Minister of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Ministry of Defence
Jonathan Berry
10 Oct 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property)
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Grant Shapps
10 Oct 2025Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Ministry of Defence
Boris Johnson
10 Oct 2025Prime Minister
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Joanna Rowland
10 Oct 2025Director General, Customer Services Group, Director General, UK Visas and Immigration, and Director General
New role: pending ACOBA publication · His Majesty's Passport Office, Home Office
Huw Merriman
10 Oct 2025Minister of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Transport
Bernadette Kelly
10 Oct 2025Permanent Secretary
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Transport
Humza Yousaf
10 Oct 2025First Minister of Scotland
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Stuart Skeates
10 Oct 2025Director General, Illegal Migration Operations Command
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Home Office
Tom Pursglove
10 Oct 2025Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Home Office
Rishi Sunak
9 Oct 2025Prime Minister
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Stephen Parkinson
7 Oct 2025Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
David Johnston
7 Oct 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Education
Trudy Harrison
7 Oct 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Greg Hands
6 Oct 2025Minister of State for Trade Policy
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Business and Trade
Heaton
6 Oct 2025Harris, Chris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Patrick Sanders
6 Oct 2025Chief of the General Staff
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Ministry of Defence
Martin Callanan
2 Oct 2025Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Brandon Lewis
2 Oct 2025Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Suella Braverman
2 Oct 2025Secretary of State for the Home Department
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Paul Johnston
2 Oct 2025British Ambassador to Ireland
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Amanda Reynolds
2 Oct 2025Director General Strategy and Transformation
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Department for Work and Pensions
Michelle Dyson
30 Sept 2025Director General
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department of Health and Social Care
Charlie Stickland
30 Sept 2025Chief of Joint Operations for the Permanent Joint Headquarters
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Ministry of Defence
Ken Thomson
30 Sept 2025Director General Strategy and External Affairs, Scottish Government
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Michelle Donelan
30 Sept 2025Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Elizabeth Perelman
30 Sept 2025Director General for Public Service Reform and Efficiency
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Cabinet Office
Michael Potter
30 Sept 2025Government Chief Digital Officer, Central Digital and Data Office
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Cabinet Office and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Mark Harper
30 Sept 2025Secretary of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department of Transport
Steve Baker
30 Sept 2025former Minister of State for Northern Ireland and Minister of State in the Cabinet Office
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Robert Halfon
23 Sept 2025Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Education
Andrew Sharpe
23 Sept 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Home Office
Alan Mak
23 Sept 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Economic Security
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Tom Tugendhat
23 Sept 2025Minister of State for Security
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Home Office
Paul Lincoln
23 Sept 2025Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Kay Swinburne
17 Sept 2025Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Jenny Harries
17 Sept 2025Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department of Health and Social Care
Dominic Johnson
17 Sept 2025Minister of State
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Department for Business and Trade
Graham Evans
17 Sept 2025Government Whip in the House of Lords
New role: pending ACOBA publication
Oliver Dowden
16 Sept 2025Deputy Prime Minister
New role: pending ACOBA publication · Cabinet Office
Ben Wallace
16 Sept 2025Secretary of State for Defence
New role: pending ACOBA publication · the Ministry of Defence