Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 November 2005. It was answered by Hazel Blears (Labour) on Monday, 9 January 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.
Police
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time was for a disclosure application to be processed by the Metropolitan Police in the last year for which figures are available; and how many disclosure applications are waiting to be processed by the Metropolitan Police.
- Answer
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The average time taken by the Metropolitan Police Service to process a Disclosure application for the year November 2004 to October 2005 was 33.57 days. By 28 November 2005 the number of applications waiting to be processed had dropped to 79,575 applications. The Metropolitan Police have made a number of changes to their IT systems recently which has led to significant and ongoing improvements in the time they are taking to deal with Disclosures referred to them by the Criminal Records Bureau.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 441 c384W; 31792
- Session
- 2005-06
- Subjects
- Criminal records Administrative delays Metropolitan Police Vetting
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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