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535279

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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 her Department's target waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the Metropolitan Police Service.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	42337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the Disclosure and Barring Service processed 87% of all applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>Some of the over four million applications received each year need to be referred to one or more police forces for further checks. There is a service level agreement between the Disclosure and Barring Service and police forces in relation to the time taken to complete these local disclosure checks.</p><p>These standards are: -</p><p>85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;</p><p>90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;</p><p>95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and - 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 42336 question first answered 13/07/2016 15:36:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

535286

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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 her Department's target waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the police.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	42336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the Disclosure and Barring Service processed 87% of all applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>Some of the over four million applications received each year need to be referred to one or more police forces for further checks. There is a service level agreement between the Disclosure and Barring Service and police forces in relation to the time taken to complete these local disclosure checks.</p><p>These standards are: -</p><p>85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;</p><p>90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;</p><p>95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and - 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 42337 question first answered 13/07/2016 15:36:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

533877

registered interest
date	08/07/2016
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 time taken to process counter-terrorism checks for job applications in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) other constituent parts of the UK.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	42255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>Counter-terrorism checks conducted by the Home Office form part of the national security vetting process required for employment in the Home Office.</p><p>We continue to reduce the processing time for all national security vetting checks. Processing times will vary from case to case and are not broken down by constituent parts of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/07/2016 16:11:45 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

532970

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
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, for how long since the date of initial application the longest outstanding disclosure and barring check has been outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	41946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The longest outstanding application for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Certificate is 25 months.</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, legal challenges and the operational effectiveness of the disclosure units of the police forces involved in the enhanced process.</p><p>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 13/07/2016 15:26:47 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

528090

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
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 (a) monitor and (b) improve the performance of police forces in completing applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	41036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2016 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>If police force performance falls below the standard agreed with the DBS, the DBS will work with the force concerned. Where appropriate, this may include implementing a recovery plan and providing additional resources to ensure that the plan is fully supported.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/06/2016 13:18:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

522638

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 many applications the Disclosure and Barring Service has processed in each week of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The number of disclosures dispatched by the Disclosure and Barring Service in each week for each of the last six months is listed in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>W/C Date</p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29/11/2015</p></td><td><p>82,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/12/2015</p></td><td><p>79,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/12/2015</p></td><td><p>76,152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/12/2015</p></td><td><p>55,903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27/12/2015</p></td><td><p>23,642</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03/01/2016</p></td><td><p>62,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/01/2016</p></td><td><p>78,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/01/2016</p></td><td><p>86,479</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24/01/2016</p></td><td><p>80,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/01/2016</p></td><td><p>79,626</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>07/02/2016</p></td><td><p>69,471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/02/2016</p></td><td><p>91,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/02/2016</p></td><td><p>80,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28/02/2016</p></td><td><p>86,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/03/2016</p></td><td><p>81,618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/03/2016</p></td><td><p>85,742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/03/2016</p></td><td><p>69,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27/03/2016</p></td><td><p>67,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03/04/2016</p></td><td><p>19,431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/04/2016</p></td><td><p>140,612</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/04/2016</p></td><td><p>83,424</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24/04/2016</p></td><td><p>84,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/05/2016</p></td><td><p>73,455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/05/2016</p></td><td><p>84,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/05/2016</p></td><td><p>91,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22/05/2016</p></td><td><p>89,172</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>2,003,370</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 15:36:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett