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Vetting

Answer

[holding answer 12 October 2009]: The table details the number checks undertaken by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) which were the subject of a dispute since the launch of the disclosure service in 2002.Information is not held to enable a breakdown of the number or percentage of disputes that relate to either the applicant or the employer.

	Disclosure type
	Total number of disputes	Total number of disclosures issued	Percentage of disputes
2002-03	1,111	1,437,094	0.077
2003-04	1,887	2,284,688	0.082
2004-05	2,291	2,430,937	0.094
2005-06	2,379	2,770,265	0.085
2006-07	2,112	3,277,957	0.064
2007-08	2,288	3,323,251	0.068
2008-09	2,509	3,855,881	0.065
2009-10	743	1,747,710	0.042

The contents of a disclosure can be disputed for a number of reasons, such as:"The record relates to someone with the same details as the applicant and based on the information available the CRB was unable to dissociate the applicant from the record.""Where locally held information is released the applicant feels it is either inaccurate, misleading or is otherwise inaccurate in the opinion of the applicant and as a result the police agree to amend the information.""Where someone has had their identity stolen or cloned."CRB quality assurance procedures are targeted at eliminating errors. In 2008-09, the accuracy rate for CRB Disclosures was 99.96 per cent.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

498 c1145-6W; 290332

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Vetting

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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