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HMRC business appointment rules advice

All outside appointments or employment taken up by former HMRC staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2.

This page provides information about outside appointments or employment taken up by former members of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

It covers former staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2 and equivalents and which fall within the scope of the business appointment rules. It also covers special advisers of equivalent level.

Organization: HM Revenue and Customs
Neighbourhood Plans - Valued Landscapes

More than 50 parish councils are involved in neighbourhood planning in Northumberland. Some of these have created Neighbourhood Plans involving Valued Landscapes of varying types and designations. Some of these aim to replicate the Area of High Landscape Values that previously existed under five of the six former district councils within Northumberland, but whose designations of which did not meet requirements when being combined and reviewed following local government reform.

Neighbourhood planning is a way for local communities to shape the development of the area in which they live. Through preparing a neighbourhood plan, the community can set out a locally driven vision and policies for how land should be used, protected, or developed.

Once complete, a neighbourhood plan will sit alongside the County Council’s Local Plan and will be used to make decisions on planning applications. 

For more information on Neighbourhood Planning, please visit [https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policy/neighbourhood-planning](https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policy/neighbourhood-planning).

Organization: Northumberland County Council
Landscape Character Assessment

Landscape character is the distinct, recognisable and consistent pattern of elements that makes one area of landscape different from another. Variations in geology, soils, landform, land use, vegetation, field boundaries, settlement patterns and building styles all help give rise to different landscapes, each with its own distinctive character and ‘sense of place’. These differences are the product of both natural and human influences. Within the study area there is a great diversity of landscapes, from the coastal landscapes of the north-east, to the uplands of the North Pennines, to the rolling farmland of the central areas, and the developed south-east.

Landscape character assessment involves mapping, classifying and describing these variations in landscape character. The resulting classification of the landscape can be used as a basis for making judgements about the character and condition of the landscape, to identify how landscape character can be maintained. 

The starting point for the defining landscape character in the County is National Character Area (NCA) profiling carried out by Natural England. Nine of the defined NCAs fall fully or partly in Northumberland. The Northumberland Landscape Character Assessment sub-divided the nine NCAs into 44 local Landscape Character Types (LCTs) and 108 Landscape Character Areas (LCAs). Each of the 108 LCAs has a detailed profile. In addition, each of the 44 LCTs has, defined for it, key qualities, forces for change and accompanying guidance on how to treat proposals which may impact on these positively or negatively. Each LCT has, assigned to it one of three overarching guiding principles, as follows:

* Protect - where conservation of landscape character is required in the face of
pressures for change; or
* Manage - where some change can be absorbed but changes arising from social,
economic and environmental processes need to be managed; or
* Plan - where important landscape character has been eroded and strong action is
needed to enhance or restore it.

Description taken from [Northumberland Landscape Character Assessment](https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/NorthumberlandCountyCouncil/media/Planning-and-Building/planning%20policy/Studies%20and%20Evidence%20Reports/Landscape%20Green%20Spaces%20Studies/1.%20Landscape%20Character/Landscape-Character-Part-A.pdf) and [Northumberland Local Plan 2016 - 2036](https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/NorthumberlandCountyCouncil/media/Planning-and-Building/planning%20policy/Local%20Plan/Northumberland-Local-Plan-Adopted-March-2022.pdf).

Organization: Northumberland County Council
Source Protection Zones [Merged]

Source Protection Zones [Merged] have been created as public facing outlines where common boundaries and overlaps (based on zone number) have been removed.  Source Protection Zones (SPZs) are defined around large and public potable groundwater abstraction sites. The purpose of SPZs is to provide additional protection to safeguard drinking water quality through constraining the proximity of an activity that may impact upon a drinking water abstraction. This is part of an initial screening process in assessing impacts to groundwater resources. Zones around location sites are defined by groundwater travel time to an abstraction. This is determined through applying Environment Agency groundwater flow models run at the location of abstractions, inputting parameters such as flow direction, geology type, rainfall and hydrological boundaries. SPZs provide a visual representation of the increased risks as you get closer to the abstraction.             

The following subdivisions are defined within SPZs:
Zone 1: (Inner Protection Zone) - This zone is defined by a travel time of 50-days or less from any point within the zone at, or below, the water table. Additionally, the zone has as a minimum a 50-metre radius. It is based principally on biological decay criteria and is designed to protect against the transmission of toxic chemicals and water-borne disease.                                
Zone 2: (Outer Protection Zone) - This zone is defined by the 400-day travel time from a point below the water table. Additionally this zone has a minimum radius of 250 or 500 metres, depending on the size of the abstraction. The travel time is derived from consideration of the minimum time required to provide delay, dilution and attenuation of slowly degrading pollutants.
Zone 3: (Total catchment) - This zone is defined as the total area needed to support the abstraction or discharge from the protected groundwater source.

We’ve extended some zones to include areas where there is protective geology cover, such as clay. This is because activities below the surface, such as deep drilling, could create pathways for pollutants to enter the groundwater. The SPZ maps show them as zones 1c, 2c and 3c.

 A further Zone 4, or ‘Zone of Special Interest’ is occasionally defined for some groundwater sources. These zones highlight areas (mainly on non-aquifers) where known local conditions mean that potentially polluting activities could impact on a groundwater source, even though the area is outside the normal catchment of that source. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Tags: Source Protection Zones, aquifer, environment, groundwater, inlandWaters, water resources management
Organization: Environment Agency
BGS BritPits version 4

The BGS BritPits version 4 is derived from a BGS database, which contains records of mineral workings covering the Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. The coverage includes active, inactive, dormant and ceased sites and a range of mineral operations, including mines, quarries, onshore oil and gas fields, together with wharfs and rail depots handling mineral products and industrial processes which produce a mineral product. The information on currently active sites is continually updated with the cooperation of both local authorities and the minerals industry.

Tags: Commodity economics, Mines, Mining, NERC_DDC, Open cut mining, Pits, Quarries, Quarrying, Sand pits
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Spend over £25,000 in Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

A monthly-updated list of all financial transactions spending over £25,000 made by Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, as part of the Government's commitment to transparency in expenditure. https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/about-us/key-documents/key-documents-publications-and-reports/navigate/835/5393#document-library-5393

Organization: Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust
Our Marine Historic Environment: Enhancing the National Monument Record

Maritime Archaeology Ltd (MA Ltd) have been commissioned by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) to undertake a project entitled Our Marine Historic Environment: Enhancing the National Monuments Record. The overall aim of this project is to compare the wreck data maintained by the National Monuments Record (NMR) and United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) datasets and, where applicable, suggest solutions as to how any discrepancies should be overcome.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Obesogens in Scottish grey seals 2015-2018

The impacts of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are assessed in fat tissue (blubber) using live explant samples from young grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) on the east coast of Scotland. The data show POP levels in blubber and responses to intrinsic pollutants and experimental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), relevant due to its applicability to other species, including humans. The study sites are located on the Isle of May (56° 10’ 58.79” N, 02° 32’ 57.56” W) between October and December 2015, 2016, and 2017, where the grey seal population had been monitored annually and from where previous POP data from blubber tissue was investigated in 2002. A second sample set was collected from yearling grey seals hauled out on the Isle of May, Moray Firth, and Culbin Sands (57° 39’10” N, 03° 43’ 15” W) and maintained in temporary captivity at the Sea Mammal Research Unit between February and August 2018. The capture and explant data includes animal identifier, moulting state (where relevant for yearlings), whether the animal was fed or fasted (where relevant for pups), body and sample tissue mass. Characteristics of the animals like sex, birth, and weaning date (where known), rate of mass change, life history stage and blubber fat content, including intrinsic blubber POP levels, were measured at the Centre for Analytical Research and Technology at the University of Liège, Belgium to be used as covariates in a Generalised Additive Mixed Model (GAMM). This analysis was undertaken after accelerated solvent extraction of the samples in hexane dichloromethane (Dionex 200 by Thermo Fisher Scientific) and the extracts were analysed using a gas chromatograph (Agilent 6890 GC) coupled to Autospec Ultima High-Res Mass Spectrometer. The response of explants was tested through measurement of gene expression (using the Stratagene Mx3000P qPCR System or StepOne Plus Real-Time PCR System), insulin signaling and glucose uptake, lactate production, oxygen consumption and lipolytic rate using Randox Monza assays. Thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (TT3) and thyroxine (TT4) were measured using Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA Fortress Diagnostics Ltd). The live explants were treated overnight with a mix of PCBs and organochlorine pesticide derivatives (DDT, DDE), which were associated with altered metabolic function symptoms such as glucose uptake and lactate production in 2015-2017. The data will facilitate an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of contaminant-induced disruption of energy balance by legacy pollutants in seals during their most vulnerable life stages. The data collection was led by Dr Kimberley Bennett from Abertay University and funded by the NERC Discovery Science project “Obesogens in a naturally obese animal: An experimental approach to assess the impact of marine pollutants on fat tissue function in seals”, parent grant reference NE/M013723/1 with child grant NE/M01357X/1.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
The GEBCO_2022 Grid - the 2022 compilation of a continuous terrain model of the global oceans and land

The GEBCO_2022 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. In regions outside of the Arctic Ocean area, the grid uses as a base, Version 2.4 of the SRTM15+ data set between latitudes of 50 degrees South and 60 degrees North. This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The GEBCO_2022 Grid represents all data within the 2022 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2022 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. Outside of Polar regions, the gridded bathymetric data sets supplied by the Regional Centers, as sparse grids, i.e. only grid cells that contain data were populated, were included on to the base grid with blending with the aim of generating a continuous terrain surface. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The primary GEBCO_2022 grid contains land and ice surface elevation. In addition, a version of the data set is made available with under-ice topography/bathymetry information for Greenland and Antarctica. The GEBCO_2022 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Northern Ireland Office (NIO): Ministerial Gifts, Hospitality, Travel and Meetings

Data on gifts that ministers gave and received, their external meetings and any overseas travel. Northern Ireland Office (NIO) publishes details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations, gifts (given and received), hospitality and overseas travel on a quarterly basis.

Prior to 2021, spend data was published on GOV.UK at: transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases-northern-ireland-office

The published data is validated and released in CSV format and OGL-licensed for reuse. For more information about this series, see: how-to-publish-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings

Organization: Northern Ireland Office
Seaglider observations in the Belgica Trough and over the continental slope of the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, February to March 2020

Seaglider observations were collected in and around the Belgica Trough in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, and over the continental slope to the immediate north. The campaign aimed at resolving the narrow boundary currents of the trough's circulation, as well as extending observational coverage in an under-studied region (i.e. the Bellingshausen Sea). The Seaglider was prepared and piloted by the University of East Anglia (COMPASS), deployed 01 Feb 2020 and recovered 20 Mar 2020 from the RV Nathaniel B Palmer by the California Institute of Technology (TABASCO), who also assisted with piloting. The observations include temperature, conductivity, density, salinity, chlorophyll and backscatter data.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
CTD profile data collected from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), Pacific Ocean during SMARTEX project expeditions JC241 (2023) and JC257 (2024)

Full-depth CTD profiles collected during RRS James Cook cruises JC241 and JC257 in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), northern equatorial Pacific Ocean, an area likely to be targeted for deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules in 2023 (JC241) and 2024 (JC257). A Sea-Bird 911plus CTD system was used, mounted on a 24-way stainless steel rosette frame, equipped with 12 x 10-litre Niskin bottles. Too few salinity samples were collected for statistics and verification of sensor trends, therefore none were applied. Post-cruise calibration revealed a 0.00193 deg C positive offset of the temp2 (secondary) temperature sensor; this correction was applied in the final files. Scientific objectives: 1. OMCO 1979 experimental site to estimate mining impact on seabed habitats after 40 years; 2. UK-1 site to understand seasonal changes in seafloor currents and benthic boundary layer processes; 3. Mesoscale eddy structure investigation on the approach to UK1. The data were collected by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, as part of the NERC-funded Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact (SMARTEX) project (NE/T003537/1).

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
The GEBCO_2023 Grid - the 2023 compilation of a continuous terrain model of the global oceans and land

The GEBCO_2023 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. In regions outside of the Arctic Ocean and Southern Ocean areas, the grid uses as a base, Version 2.5.5 of the SRTM15+ data set between latitudes of 50 degrees South and 60 degrees North. This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The GEBCO_2023 Grid represents all data within the 2023 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2023 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. Outside of Polar regions, the gridded bathymetric data sets supplied by the Regional Centers, as sparse grids, i.e. only grid cells that contain data were populated, were included on to the base grid with blending with the aim of generating a continuous terrain surface. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The primary GEBCO_2023 Grid contains land and ice surface elevation. In addition, a version of the data set is made available with under-ice topography/bathymetry information for Greenland and Antarctica. The GEBCO_2023 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Physical oceanographic measurements in Orkney, UK in 2005 and 2017

This dataset contains physical oceanographic data, comprising acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) and waverider measurements. The ADCP data were collected using a Teledyne RDI Workhorse Sentinel-600 ADCP mounted on a seabed frame at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) full scale tidal test site at Fall of Warness, Orkney - UK. No structures were present around the instrument at the time of the deployment. Data were collected over a two week period between February and March 2005, with a sampling resolution of 20 minutes. Data were processed by the originator using the company’s in-house Integrated Metocean Processing, Analysis and Quality Control Tool (IMPAQCT) software. Data comprise current speed profile (with on average 40-50 bins), current direction profile (vertical bins), echo amplitude (four beams), percentage good pressure and beam solution, pitch, roll, heading, and water temperature. The waverider data were collected using a Datawell Waverider buoy moored at the southern part of the full-scale wave test site at Billia Croo, Orkney. Data were collected over a one year period in 2017, with a sampling resolution of 30 minutes. Data were processed using the Datawell W@ves21 software. Data comprise wave spectral parameters, including significant wave height, spectra peak period, wave direction at the peak frequency, directional spread at the peak frequency, zero-upcrossing period (from spectra), and mean period (T01). Data were collected by the EMEC as part of research focusing on wave and tidal power development.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
The GEBCO_2024 Grid - the 2024 compilation of a continuous terrain model of the global oceans and land

The GEBCO_2024 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. In regions outside of the Arctic Ocean and Southern Ocean areas, the grid uses as a base, Version 2.6 of the SRTM15+ data set between latitudes of 50 degrees South and 60 degrees North. This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The GEBCO_2024 Grid represents all data within the 2024 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2024 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. Outside of Polar regions, the gridded bathymetric data sets supplied by the Regional Centers, as sparse grids, i.e. only grid cells that contain data were populated, were included on to the base grid with blending with the aim of generating a continuous terrain surface. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The primary GEBCO_2024 Grid contains land and ice surface elevation. In addition, a version of the data set is made available with under-ice topography/bathymetry information for Greenland and Antarctica. The GEBCO_2024 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network