Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

453787

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department produces on the inclusion of non-conviction information or soft information on DBS forms.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Statutory guidance is issued under section 113B(4A) of the Police Act 1997 in order to assist chief officers of police in making decisions to provide relevant non-conviction information and other intelligence from local police records for inclusion in enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificates. The Home Office introduced the first edition of this guidance on 10 September 2012 and the most recent revision came into force on 10 August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/02/2016 16:57:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

453315

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to protect the public from fraudulent organisations presenting themselves as Disclosure and Barring Service umbrella body companies seeking personal data.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	27528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>Registered/Umbrella Bodies are governed by a Code of Practice, set out in Part V of the Police Act 1997, which includes the handling of personal data. Failure to comply with the Code of Practice may result in the suspension or cancellation of the umbrella body’s registration. In addition the Disclosure and Barring Service undertakes robust checks to ensure that its authorised Registered/Umbrella Bodies have appropriate safeguards in place to protect the personal data of people they are representing.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/02/2016 14:33:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

452468

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25396, if she will place in the Library the recovery plan in place at the Metropolitan Police Service for improving performance in completing Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	27013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The operational performance plans of police disclosure units are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS regularly publishes detailed datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards which form the basis of its monthly reports to the Home Office. This includes performance against their target to issue 95% of all disclosures within 56 days and the number of disclosure applications in progress each month. This can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions.</p><p>DBS also publishes datasets showing statistics against service level agreements with police forces. These apply to the performance of police disclosure units and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 27015 27016 question first answered 22/02/2016 14:59:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

452471

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25396, if she will publish data from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) on the performance of police forces against the service level agreement standards for the time taken to complete local DBS checks over the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	27016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The operational performance plans of police disclosure units are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS regularly publishes detailed datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards which form the basis of its monthly reports to the Home Office. This includes performance against their target to issue 95% of all disclosures within 56 days and the number of disclosure applications in progress each month. This can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions.</p><p>DBS also publishes datasets showing statistics against service level agreements with police forces. These apply to the performance of police disclosure units and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 27013 27015 question first answered 22/02/2016 14:59:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

452488

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making Disclosure and Barring Service certificates portable and valid from organisation to organisation by the person concerned.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	26982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) offers an Update Service which can deliver savings in both time and costs. With the certificate holder’s permission, a potential employer or another person with a legitimate interest can check via a DBS online portal whether any new information has been recorded since the certificate was issued. Only if there has been a change is there any need for the individual to obtain a new certificate. This enables portability of certificates between organisations. It is only applicable where the certificate holder is moving within the same workforce – such as work with children or work with vulnerable adults. Where the person is moving between workforces a new certificate will be required, as there may be different factors affecting decisions about whether information is appropriate for disclosure.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 14:56:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

453443

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the timeliness of the processing of Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	903676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The average processing time for disclosure applications is 15.3 days and 94.3% of applications are issued within 8 weeks, as of December 2015. Some Enhanced Certificate applications are referred to relevant police forces. DBS is working closely with the small number of forces whose performance does not meet turnaround targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 17:25:27 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

451342

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the smallest geographical unit is for which data on the performance of the Disclosure and Barring Service is gathered for enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	26317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The performance data that the Disclosure and Barring Service gathers routinely is at national level and is published here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions</p><p>Also published on the website is the performance of individual police forces in processing applications referred to them by the DBS:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance</p><p>The DBS works continually to improve its response to data requests. I will write separately to the Honourable Member about recent work on constituency data.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/02/2016 17:01:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

451343

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the oldest uncompleted enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check was submitted.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	26316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The oldest uncompleted application for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate was received on 30 May 2014.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to comment further on this specific case. But there are a number of factors which can affect the timely completion of checks. These include the length of time it can take for an employer to deal with the initial application, the accurate completion of the application form, the clarity of the information provided, the existence of conviction or non-conviction information and the operational effectiveness of the disclosure units of the police forces involved in the enhanced process. In some cases, forces will ask DBS to clarify some details provided by the applicant which requires further investigation and this can cause further delays.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/02/2016 16:27:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

450000

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received from (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) other police forces of delays in processing Disclosure and Barring Service applications; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	25396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) provides a formal monthly performance report to the Home Office and Home Office Ministers. This includes updates on the performance of police forces in meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards for the time taken to complete local disclosure checks.</p><p>The DBS monitors the performance of all police disclosure units and works closely with any force, including the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), not meeting its targets. An MPS Gold Group is overseeing the recovery plan in place at the MPS and Home Office officials maintain a close oversight of the progress being made by assessing weekly reports and through regular attendance at the Group.</p><p>It is a priority of the MPS, DBS and the Home Office to see improvements as quickly as possible and I will continue to monitor the situation closely.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2016 16:00:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

448383

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue from (a) CRB checks and (b) Disclosure and Barring Service checks has been raised for the public purse in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	24579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service was established on 1 December 2012 when the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) merged. The table below shows total fee income from disclosures for the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2015 collated from the Annual Reports for the period. DBS is self-funding and operates on a full cost recovery basis.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Fee Income</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£(000)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005 - 06</p></td><td><p>75,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006 - 07</p></td><td><p>93,042</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007 - 08</p></td><td><p>97,765</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008 - 09</p></td><td><p>113,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 - 10</p></td><td><p>125,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 - 11</p></td><td><p>117,898</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 - 12</p></td><td><p>105,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>115,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>135,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>145,773</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/02/2016 17:48:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 42443 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton