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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

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

517951

registered interest
date	06/05/2016
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 Answers of 1 February 2016 to Questions 23158 and 23749, on vetting, what progress she has made in compiling the data.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	36717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The relevant data is being finalised and I will write to the Honourable Member shortly with the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/05/2016 11:35:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

514090

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
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 current average waiting time is for the completion of pre-employment checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	34656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Performance data for the Disclosure and Barring Service for March 2016 indicates that average processing time for DBS applications was 14.8 days. Certificates dispatched to applicants by the DBS in March 2016 involving (a) Cleveland Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service took an average of (a) 24 days and (b) 122 days.</p><p>Protecting the public is a priority for this Government and it is important that checks undertaken are thorough; a proportion of the applications received by the DBS must be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process. In the vast majority of cases these checks are completed within target. The DBS is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 34657 34658 34659 question first answered 26/04/2016 11:42:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

514091

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
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 reduce the time taken for the completion of pre-employment checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	34657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Performance data for the Disclosure and Barring Service for March 2016 indicates that average processing time for DBS applications was 14.8 days. Certificates dispatched to applicants by the DBS in March 2016 involving (a) Cleveland Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service took an average of (a) 24 days and (b) 122 days.</p><p>Protecting the public is a priority for this Government and it is important that checks undertaken are thorough; a proportion of the applications received by the DBS must be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process. In the vast majority of cases these checks are completed within target. The DBS is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 34656 34658 34659 question first answered 26/04/2016 11:42:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

514092

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
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 with the Metropolitan Police Service to reduce the time taken to complete pre-employment checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	34658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Performance data for the Disclosure and Barring Service for March 2016 indicates that average processing time for DBS applications was 14.8 days. Certificates dispatched to applicants by the DBS in March 2016 involving (a) Cleveland Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service took an average of (a) 24 days and (b) 122 days.</p><p>Protecting the public is a priority for this Government and it is important that checks undertaken are thorough; a proportion of the applications received by the DBS must be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process. In the vast majority of cases these checks are completed within target. The DBS is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 34656 34657 34659 question first answered 26/04/2016 11:42:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

514094

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
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 current average waiting time is for the completion of pre-employment checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service involving (a) Cleveland Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	34659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Performance data for the Disclosure and Barring Service for March 2016 indicates that average processing time for DBS applications was 14.8 days. Certificates dispatched to applicants by the DBS in March 2016 involving (a) Cleveland Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service took an average of (a) 24 days and (b) 122 days.</p><p>Protecting the public is a priority for this Government and it is important that checks undertaken are thorough; a proportion of the applications received by the DBS must be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process. In the vast majority of cases these checks are completed within target. The DBS is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 34656 34657 34658 question first answered 26/04/2016 11:42:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

513065

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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 average length of time was for a Disclosure and Barring Service check to be completed in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
uin	34032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service is a non-departmental public body which provides access to appropriate criminal record information for employers through its disclosure service for England and Wales. It also makes independent barring decisions about people who have harmed, or where there is considered to be a risk of harm to, a child or vulnerable person within the workplace. Given the sensitive nature of this work and the reliance on police forces to provide locally held intelligence, it would not be appropriate to introduce competition.</p><p>Whilst no assessment has been made of the affect of timeliness on the number of job opportunities which may have been lost, the impact which delays may have on applicants is recognised. The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.</p><p>The average end to end time taken to complete a DBS check, including the time taken by police forces, is listed in following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Average calendar days for a disclosure to be processed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>14.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The proportion of checks which took longer than (a) eight weeks (b) 12 weeks and (c) six months is listed in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Disclosures which took longer than 8 weeks</p></td><td><p>Disclosures which took longer than 12 weeks</p></td><td><p>Disclosures which took longer than 6 Months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of Disclosures</p></td><td><p>% of Disclosures</p></td><td><p>% of Disclosures</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>4.9%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>5.2%</p></td><td><p>3.5%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 34033 34034 34035 question first answered 21/04/2016 11:55:52 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

506654

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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, which police forces take longest to process applications from the Disclosure and Barring Service; and what the average processing time for such application is for each police force in England.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	33231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.</p><p>The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Force Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Days Taken By Force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon And Somerset</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>13.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon And Cornwall</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>76.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>16.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan</p></td><td><p>85.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>13.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>60.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33232 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:05:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

506655

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 policy is on priority categories in Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	33232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.</p><p>The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Force Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Days Taken By Force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon And Somerset</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>13.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon And Cornwall</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>76.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>16.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan</p></td><td><p>85.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>13.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>60.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33231 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:05:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier