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Written Question
Richard Paniguian
Monday 17th October 2016

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether any conditions were imposed on Sir Richard Paniguian's appointment to the board of Raytheon Systems.

Answered by Greg Hands

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills considered Richard Paniguian’s application to take up a Non–Executive Director role with Raytheon under the Business Appointment Rules.

The Department approved the above appointment subject to the conditions that:

  • Richard should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service; and
  • for two years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK Government on behalf of Raytheon or its clients.