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437188

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what the average waiting time was for checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service to be completed and (b) how long on average the Police National Computer search took in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14, (v) 2014-15 and (vi) 2015-16 to date.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	19688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The following table shows, for each year from November 2010 to October 2015, both the average end-to-end turnaround time for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates and the average time to complete the Police National Computer (PNC) stage.</p><p>The PNC stage has been defined as the time spent in DBS between receipt of an application and – in the case of Enhanced Disclosures – its despatch to local police forces; or – in the case of Standard Disclosures – its assembly for return to the applicant. During this period, DBS conducts a search of the Police National Computer, followed by internal checks to ensure both the accuracy and quality of certificates.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average End to End Turnaround (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average PNC Stage Turnaround (days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-10 to Oct-11</p></td><td><p>16.22</p></td><td><p>1.72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-11 to Oct-12</p></td><td><p>10.85</p></td><td><p>2.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-12 to Oct-13</p></td><td><p>10.23</p></td><td><p>1.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13 to Oct-14</p></td><td><p>13.63</p></td><td><p>2.42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14 to Oct-15</p></td><td><p>14.28</p></td><td><p>2.86</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/12/2015 17:16:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

436298

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to respond to my email of 20 October 2015 on Mr M Khan.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	19209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to provide an answer as it has been unable to identify the nature of the query or the individual concerned from the information provided in the question.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/12/2015 17:00:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

435904

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends to respond to the report of the Children's Commissioner, Protecting children from harm, published in November 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	19002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The report captures the findings from the first part of the Children’s Commissioner’s inquiry into child sexual abuse in the family environment. The Government will give careful consideration to the findings of the full inquiry when it is completed in December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/12/2015 17:19:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 34751 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

435906

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Disclosure and Barring Service checks for (a) standard and (b) enhanced exceeded the eight week target for issuing in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	19021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Between 1 November 2014 and 30 October 2015, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) issued over 4.19 million certificates. Of these, 6 per cent of enhanced and 0.1 per cent of standard certificates were issued after eight weeks.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/12/2015 17:23:45 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

435914

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
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 many disclosure and barring applications have been sent to the Metropolitan Police in each year of the last five years; and what the average time taken by the Metropolitan Police to process checks for Disclosure and Barring Service applications was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	18936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The number of applications that the Disclosure and Barring Service sent to the Metropolitan Police in each of the last five years is set out in the follwoing table, together with the Metropolitan Police’s average processing time for each of those years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume Despatched </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Turnaround Time (Days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010 to October 2011</p></td><td><p>336,358</p></td><td><p>68.68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011 to October 2012</p></td><td><p>207,571</p></td><td><p>33.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012 to October 2013</p></td><td><p>191,273</p></td><td><p>26.95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013 to October 2014</p></td><td><p>194,984</p></td><td><p>40.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014 to October 2015</p></td><td><p>192,950</p></td><td><p>65.44</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/12/2015 16:57:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 34746 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

434240

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Interdepartmental Ministerial Group on Modern Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on Modern Slavery met in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015; who attended each such meeting; and in what ways that group is fulfilling the role of the national rapporteur.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Mark Field
uin	18799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group (IDMG) on Modern Slavery met twice in each of the years 2013, 2014 and 2015.</p><p>In addition to these formal meetings of the IDMG group, on 17 October 2014 the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, also chaired a roundtable IDMG event as part of a programme of activity to mark the 2014 anti-slavery day.</p><p>This group fulfils the role of the UK’s national rapporteur equivalent mechanism, as set out in Article 19 of the EU directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, by carrying out assessments of trends in trafficking, gathering statistics, measuring the results of anti-trafficking actions, and regularly reporting on the above.</p><p>IDMG reports are available on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/modern-slavery-inter-departmental-ministerial-group-publications. The most recent report was published on 21 October 2015.</p><p>Each report includes a list of all current members of the IDMG. Ministers from relevant Government departments are invited to attend meetings. Where they are unable to attend, they are asked to delegate attendance to senior officials.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/12/2015 17:16:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1405 label Biography information for Mark Field

434245

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average unit cost of caring for a victim of human trafficking in a government-funded shelter is; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Mark Field
uin	18768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government funds a range of support services through a contract with The Salvation Army. It is not possible to provide an average unit cost because the needs of potential victims of trafficking are varied, as is the length of stay in accommodation, where provided.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/12/2015 17:15:01 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1405 label Biography information for Mark Field

434009

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the cost of Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	18750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is funded through fees charged for disclosure certificates and from subscriptions to the DBS disclosure update service. DBS operates on a full cost recovery basis. There has not been a fee increase in four years and volunteers receive free checks.</p><p>The table below sets out the average time taken to process all three types of checks.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Timeframe</p></td><td><p>Standard Disclosures</p></td><td><p>Enhanced Disclosures</p></td><td><p><br> Enhanced Disclosures with List Checks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2010 to 31st Oct 2011</p></td><td><p>5.21</p></td><td><p>16.84</p></td><td><p>16.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2011 to 31st Oct 2012</p></td><td><p>5.34</p></td><td><p>11.24</p></td><td><p>11.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2012 to 31st Oct 2013</p></td><td><p>4.57</p></td><td><p>10.60</p></td><td><p>10.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2013 to 31st Oct 2014</p></td><td><p>6.37</p></td><td><p>14.12</p></td><td><p>14.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2014 to 31st Oct 2015</p></td><td><p>5.97</p></td><td><p>14.92</p></td><td><p>14.94</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The fluctuations in processing times over the years relate to a number of factors, including changes in demand and demand forecasting, changes to IT systems and the performance of police forces for enhanced disclosures.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 18748 question first answered 08/12/2015 16:46:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 34344 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

434013

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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 average time was for a Disclosure and Barring Service check at (a) standard, (b) enhanced and (c) enhanced with list checks level to be conducted in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	18748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is funded through fees charged for disclosure certificates and from subscriptions to the DBS disclosure update service. DBS operates on a full cost recovery basis. There has not been a fee increase in four years and volunteers receive free checks.</p><p>The table below sets out the average time taken to process all three types of checks.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Timeframe</p></td><td><p>Standard Disclosures</p></td><td><p>Enhanced Disclosures</p></td><td><p><br> Enhanced Disclosures with List Checks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2010 to 31st Oct 2011</p></td><td><p>5.21</p></td><td><p>16.84</p></td><td><p>16.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2011 to 31st Oct 2012</p></td><td><p>5.34</p></td><td><p>11.24</p></td><td><p>11.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2012 to 31st Oct 2013</p></td><td><p>4.57</p></td><td><p>10.60</p></td><td><p>10.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2013 to 31st Oct 2014</p></td><td><p>6.37</p></td><td><p>14.12</p></td><td><p>14.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01st Nov 2014 to 31st Oct 2015</p></td><td><p>5.97</p></td><td><p>14.92</p></td><td><p>14.94</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The fluctuations in processing times over the years relate to a number of factors, including changes in demand and demand forecasting, changes to IT systems and the performance of police forces for enhanced disclosures.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 18750 question first answered 08/12/2015 16:46:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 34343 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

434016

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to lay before Parliament a report on the steps the Government proposes to take in relation to independent child trafficking advocates, pursuant to section 48(7) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
uin	18663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Section 48(7) of the Modern Slavery Act requires the Government to lay before Parliament a report setting out the steps it proposes to take in relation to independent child trafficking advocates within nine months of Royal Assent of the Modern Slavery Act. The Government will publish this report by 16 December, whilst Parliament is sitting.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/12/2015 16:32:58 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 34336 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes