Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards

Relevant interests of ministers serving in HM Government

The Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards considers applications under the Government’s Business Appointment Rules (BARs) for former ministers

Advice provided to Guy Opperman, former Minister for Roads and Local Transport at the Department for Transport, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to Tom Pursglove, former Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border at the Home Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Robert Courts KC, former Solicitor General, Attorney General's Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Alan Mak MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and the Cabinet Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Jess Phillips MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Tom Tugendhat MBE VR MP, former Minister of State at the Home Office on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

The Independent Adviser wrote to Alex Burghart MP on 5 June 2026

Correspondence with the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan, former Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Johnny Mercer, former Minister for Veterans' Affairs, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Luke Hall, former Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards for the year ended 31 March 2026.

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Michelle Donelan, former Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Correspondence with the Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps, former Secretary of State for Defence, Ministry of Defence, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Gareth Davies MP, former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to Baroness Neville-Rolfe, former Minister of State, Cabinet Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to Lord Johnson, former Minister of State (Minister for Investment), Department for Business and Trade, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Jo Churchill, former Minister for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to Lord Gove, former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

The Independent Adviser wrote to Alex Burghart MP on 13 March 2026

Advice provided to Viscount Camrose, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to David Johnston OBE, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Education, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt, former Leader of the Commons and Lord President of the Council, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, former Prime Minister, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to David Rutley, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson CBE, former Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care, Department of Health and Social Care, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon John Glen MP, former Paymaster General at the Cabinet Office on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell, former Minister of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Lord Cameron, former Secretary of State at the the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, former Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Baroness Gustafsson, former Minister of State (Minister for Investment), jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Sir James Cleverly, former Secretary of State for the Home Department at the Home Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Rebecca Pow, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to the Lord Markham CBE, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Health and Social Care Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office.

Advice provided to Paul Maynard, former Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Work and Pensions on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Michael Matheson, former Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, and, prior to that, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Scottish Government, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Lee Rowley, former Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice to Baroness Swinburne, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Lord Sharpe of Epsom OBE, former Parliamentary Under Secretary, Home Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Advice provided to Lord Harlech, former Government Whip, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office

Annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests for the year ended 31 March 2024.

The 2023 annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests.

This page contains the exchange of letters between the Prime Minister and the new Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests.

A letter from Lord Geidt and the Prime Minister's response.

A letter from the Prime Minister to Lord Geidt, Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests, in response to the publication of the Independent Adviser's Annual Report.

The 2022 annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests.

This document provides the report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, published in May 2021.

This document provides the report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests for 2017.

This document provides the report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests for 2016.

This document provides the report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests for 2011 to 2015.

This document provides the report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests for 2010 to 2011.