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The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approved Barnes' directorships with the Met and BMT, noting that: | The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approved Barnes' directorships with the Met and BMT, noting that: | ||
| − | :the Committee took into account the fact that the role may involve dealings with Ms Barnes’s former Department. However, the Committee also noted that Ms Barnes had had no official dealings with the Met Office and had not been involved in decisions affecting them. | + | :the Committee took into account the fact that the role may involve dealings with Ms Barnes’s former Department. However, the Committee also noted that Ms Barnes had had no official dealings with the Met Office and had not been involved in decisions affecting them.<ref> [Appointments taken up by former Crown servants], Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, last updated 2 October 2013, accessed 8 October 2013 </ref> |
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| − | :the Committee took into the account the fact that the appointment was likely to include contact with Ms Barnes’s former Government, as BMT works with the [[MOD]] in defence maritime. However, she had not had contractual dealings with BMT, nor had she had access to commercially sensitive information or been involved in policy related to BMT. | + | :the Committee took into the account the fact that the appointment was likely to include contact with Ms Barnes’s former Government, as BMT works with the [[MOD]] in defence maritime. However, she had 'not had any direct official or contractual dealings with BMT, and had 'not been responsible for people who have had contractual |
| + | dealings with her prospective employer during her last two years of service'. | ||
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| + | nor had she had access to commercially sensitive information or been involved in policy related to BMT. | ||
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| + | Nor has she had 'access to any commercially sensitive information about any competitors and has not been involved in the development or administration of any policy or decisions that could have affected her prospective employer or its competitors'. | ||
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Revision as of 07:41, 9 October 2013
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Wendy Barnes was Chief Operating Officer (Acting), Operations Group at the Department for Energy and Climate Change until 31 December 2012.
She is now a part-time paid non-executive director of the Met Office and BMT Group Ltd (BMT), a leading engineering, science and technology consultancy, operating mainly in the maritime industries. Barnes took up the Met Office role in May 2013 and BMT role in summer 2013
Background
According to her biography:
- Wendy has held several executive positions in her 24 year experience in the nuclear and water industries. Starting as a professional statistician, Wendy then moved in to the area of Customer Service, Marketing and Business Development. She was also responsible for leading several large change programmes. Since leaving corporate life in 2003 Wendy has held several non-executive director positions in government security and defence departments, including FCO Services, a trading fund of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Wendy is also an executive coach and mentor and is involved with the management team at Chester Cathedral. [1]
Post civil service career
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approved Barnes' directorships with the Met and BMT, noting that:
- the Committee took into account the fact that the role may involve dealings with Ms Barnes’s former Department. However, the Committee also noted that Ms Barnes had had no official dealings with the Met Office and had not been involved in decisions affecting them.[2]
And:
- the Committee took into the account the fact that the appointment was likely to include contact with Ms Barnes’s former Government, as BMT works with the MOD in defence maritime. However, she had 'not had any direct official or contractual dealings with BMT, and had 'not been responsible for people who have had contractual
dealings with her prospective employer during her last two years of service'.
nor had she had access to commercially sensitive information or been involved in policy related to BMT.
Nor has she had 'access to any commercially sensitive information about any competitors and has not been involved in the development or administration of any policy or decisions that could have affected her prospective employer or its competitors'.
Notes
- ↑ Wendy Barnes, DECC website, undated, accessed 10 September 2012
- ↑ [Appointments taken up by former Crown servants], Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, last updated 2 October 2013, accessed 8 October 2013
