Talk:Stephen Ladyman

Update profile - he is now chairman at Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust since Jan 2013 https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-ladyman/25/6a5/b27

And also do a section on original Sunday Times coverage http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Test/politics/article133728.ece and parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubadm/36/3606.htm AND http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Test/politics/article133723.ece

104. There are specific concerns about former Ministers who take up paid employment after they have left ministerial office but while they remain Members of Parliament paid from the public purse. In a recent case, Dr Stephen Ladyman MP, a former Minister of State at the Department for Transport working as an adviser to ITIS Holding plc, a company selling traffic information, for an annual fee of between £10,001 and £15,000, approached a senior official at the Highways Agency while still subject to an ACoBA lobbying ban, to make initial contact with a view to arranging a meeting once the lobbying ban had expired. He has since mentioned his former ministerial position as a way of introducing himself when lobbying on behalf of ITIS.[100] This case shows both the potential for differing interpretations of ACoBA's lobbying ban and the way in which former Ministers can, within all existing rules, use their former Ministerial position to help them to gain access for private interests.

See also more recent brief synopsis : http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/12/lobbying-10-ways-corprations-influence-government