§ Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (1) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with 118W salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past ten years have taken up posts with industrial firms, signifying which of these have done so within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department;
(2) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past ten years have taken up posts with industrial firms, stating the firms which they joined within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department.
§ Sir K. JosephThere is in my Department no record of any instance of the kind to which the hon. Member refers. The rules concerning outside employment are brought to the attention of senior officers who are about to resign or retire, but their obligation to seek permission does not go beyond the first two years after leaving.