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889935

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Criminal Records: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the case of R (QSA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWHC 407 (Admin), if she will assess the equity of the criminal record disclosure regime to ensure that it balances the public interest with the rights of an individual applicant for employment.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	136987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that the disclosure and barring arrangements currently in place provide the right balance between protecting the public, giving employers the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and allowing ex-offenders to gain employment. The High Court judgment in the case of R (QSA and others) was handed down on 2 March. The Government has been granted permission to appeal the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>Standard and enhanced criminal record certificates are available when an applicant seeks to work with children, vulnerable people or in other specified roles. Under the statutory arrangements, certain old and minor convictions and cautions are not disclosed. Multiple offences for which an individual has received a caution may be filtered. The filtering provisions are not, however, available to anyone who has:</p><ul><li>received more than one conviction;</li><li>been sentenced to custody; or</li><li>received a conviction or caution for a listed offence.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 136990 question first answered 30/04/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

889938

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Criminal Records: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, following the case of R (QSA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWHC 407 (Admin), if she will ensure that the criminal record disclosure regime enables the filtering of multiple minor offences.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	136990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that the disclosure and barring arrangements currently in place provide the right balance between protecting the public, giving employers the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and allowing ex-offenders to gain employment. The High Court judgment in the case of R (QSA and others) was handed down on 2 March. The Government has been granted permission to appeal the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>Standard and enhanced criminal record certificates are available when an applicant seeks to work with children, vulnerable people or in other specified roles. Under the statutory arrangements, certain old and minor convictions and cautions are not disclosed. Multiple offences for which an individual has received a caution may be filtered. The filtering provisions are not, however, available to anyone who has:</p><ul><li>received more than one conviction;</li><li>been sentenced to custody; or</li><li>received a conviction or caution for a listed offence.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 136987 question first answered 30/04/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake