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Written question asked by Jonathan Edwards (Independent (affiliation)) on Monday, 16 October 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 October 2023 (named day). It was answered by Sarah Dines (Conservative) on Thursday, 19 October 2023 on behalf of the Home Office.

Vetting

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Disclosure and Barring Service over the time taken to process an enhanced check; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of resources available to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Answer

As the Minister for Safeguarding, I meet with the Chairman of the Disclosure and Barring Service to discuss performance.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has a service standard to issue 80% of Enhanced checks within 14 days. Its performance remains consistently strong against this service standard as can be seen for the 2022-23 reporting year and first quarter of 2023-24 DBS dataset 1: DBS checks, the DBS Update Service, and disputes - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

To summarise performance, the attainment over the 2022/23 reporting year was 78.4%, with over 3.5 million customers receiving their Enhanced DBS check results within 14 days. The average turnaround time over the past year was 10.7 days, and 80% of all enhanced Disclosures were issued by day 16 against the 14-day target.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
202710
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Standards Vetting Disclosure and Barring Service
Link
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