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My Lords, I wish to address three issues. The first is the long-awaited duty of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. This is a key recommendation of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, but with a strengthened and more encompassing base, and a key issue supported by the NSPCC.
This...
My Lords, I wish to address three issues. The first is the long-awaited duty of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. This is a key recommendation of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, but with a strengthened and more encompassing base, and a key issue supported by the NSPCC.
This...
My Lords, I apologise for not having been in the Chamber at Second Reading.
Thousands of people have died because of Governments’ and officials’ lies and obfuscation about the contaminated blood scandal. This Government, and every Government for the past 40 years, should be ashamed. Perhaps this Government should be more...
My Lords, I apologise for not having been in the Chamber at Second Reading.
Thousands of people have died because of Governments’ and officials’ lies and obfuscation about the contaminated blood scandal. This Government, and every Government for the past 40 years, should be ashamed. Perhaps this Government should be more...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what plans she has to bring forward proposals to reform (a) regular Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks and (b) the discretionary aspect of enhanced CRBs;
[117878]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what plans she has to bring forward proposals to reform (a) regular Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks and (b) the discretionary aspect of enhanced CRBs;
[117878]
We are reforming the Criminal Records Regime to make it more proportionate and efficient. There are a number of changes in the Protection of Freedoms Act (2012) to achieve this.
The criteria for releasing discretionary information held in local police records on enhanced criminal record certificates will change. Currently, the chief officer can release any information that ‘might be relevant’ and ‘ought to be included in the certificate’. From September, this will change to information the chief officer ‘reasonably believes’ to be relevant and ‘ought to be included in the certificate.’ Statutory guidance on providing information for inclusion in enhanced criminal record certificates, incorporating this new test of relevance, will be available to chief officers to which they must have regard.
The Act also introduces the right to appeal to an independent monitor against any discretionary information the applicant believes should not be included on the certificate.
The Home Office has worked closely with a number of Departments on these reforms and during the passage of the Protection of Freedoms Act.
(2) what assessment she has made of the effect of subjectivity in the discretionary element of enhanced Criminal Record Bureau checks on the capacity of individuals to gain employment; and what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on reform of this element.
[117877]
Steve Rotheram:
(2) what assessment she has made of the effect of subjectivity in the discretionary element of enhanced Criminal Record Bureau checks on the capacity of individuals to gain employment; and what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on reform of this element.
[117877]
Steve Rotheram:
We are reforming the Criminal Records Regime to make it more proportionate and efficient. There are a number of changes in the Protection of Freedoms Act (2012) to achieve this.
The criteria for releasing discretionary information held in local police records on enhanced criminal record certificates will change. Currently, the chief officer can release any information that ‘might be relevant’ and ‘ought to be included in the certificate’. From September, this will change to information the chief officer ‘reasonably believes’ to be relevant and ‘ought to be included in the certificate.’ Statutory guidance on providing information for inclusion in enhanced criminal record certificates, incorporating this new test of relevance, will be available to chief officers to which they must have regard.
The Act also introduces the right to appeal to an independent monitor against any discretionary information the applicant believes should not be included on the certificate.
The Home Office has worked closely with a number of Departments on these reforms and during the passage of the Protection of Freedoms Act.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will give (a) international schools, (b) orphanages and (c) other such organisations based abroad the ability to access UK criminal records checking procedures to ensure that British sex offenders who apply for work with them cannot gain access...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will give (a) international schools, (b) orphanages and (c) other such organisations based abroad the ability to access UK criminal records checking procedures to ensure that British sex offenders who apply for work with them cannot gain access...
Any British resident is able to obtain their own basic certificate by applying to either Disclosure Scotland or Access Northern Ireland. Such certificates will provide individuals' unspent convictions, including conditional cautions. For organisations that are based outside the United Kingdom but have sponsor schools, associate schools or UK offices (such as Save the Children and UNICEF) which are able to ask the question relating to convictions in the UK and show that eligibility exists under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (ROA) (Exceptions) Order 1975, applications may be made to the criminal records Bureau (CRB) for standard or enhanced certificates.
In Phase 2 of her review of the criminal record regime in England and Wales (“A Common Sense Approach”), Mrs Sunita Mason, the Independent Advisor for Criminality Information Management, made a recommendation that would allow
“British residents to obtain a standard CRB certificate when applying for a post abroad that would be excepted from the ROA if it was in the UK, and providing for a check of the barred list to be made where it would have amounted to regulated activity”.
We have asked Mrs Mason to consider this issue further and provide us with more detailed advice before we decide how to respond to this recommendation.
Motions to consider. Agreed to on question.
Motions to consider. Agreed to on question.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent changes her Department has made to the criminal record checks regime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent changes her Department has made to the criminal record checks regime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many records checks the Criminal Records Bureau has processed for people living in (a) St Helens South and Whiston constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) England in each of the last five years; and how many such checks required the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many records checks the Criminal Records Bureau has processed for people living in (a) St Helens South and Whiston constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) England in each of the last five years; and how many such checks required the...
| Calendar year | Total issued | Enhanced | Standard | Fingerprints provided |
| 2007 | 3,353,101 | 3,050,201 | 302,900 | 4,522 |
| 2008 | 3,701,293 | 3,343,025 | 358,268 | 5,180 |
| 2009 | 4,198,256 | 3,848,820 | 349,436 | 4,626 |
| 2010 | 4,307,690 | 4,118,568 | 189,122 | 6,354 |
| 2011 | 4,133,408 | 3,895,248 | 238,160 | 3,454 |
| Total | 19,693,748 | 18,255,862 | 1,437,886 | 24,136 |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress she has made on reforming the Criminal Records Bureau status checks regime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress she has made on reforming the Criminal Records Bureau status checks regime.
The Government have received representations from a number of organisations concerning the appropriate level of criminal records checks for licensed taxi and public hire vehicle drivers. At present the legal entitlement for many drivers is for a standard level criminal records check, although the practice has grown up of applying...
The Government have received representations from a number of organisations concerning the appropriate level of criminal records checks for licensed taxi and public hire vehicle drivers. At present the legal entitlement for many drivers is for a standard level criminal records check, although the practice has grown up of applying...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to introduce annual subscription fees for volunteers who undergo portable Criminal Records Bureau checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to introduce annual subscription fees for volunteers who undergo portable Criminal Records Bureau checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans her Department has to introduce charges for Criminal Records Bureau and vetting and barring checks for volunteers in the charitable sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans her Department has to introduce charges for Criminal Records Bureau and vetting and barring checks for volunteers in the charitable sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) target time and (b) average time taken was to complete a Criminal Records Bureau check from when the completed form is received; and how many such checks have taken more than six months to complete in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) target time and (b) average time taken was to complete a Criminal Records Bureau check from when the completed form is received; and how many such checks have taken more than six months to complete in the...
| Standard disclosures | Enhanced disclosures | ||||||
| Certificates issued | Average turnaround | Number taking over six months | Certificates issued | Average turnaround | Number taking over six months | Percentage taking over six months | |
| November 2010 | 15,814 | 5.2 | 0 | 372,575 | 24.65 | 1,442 | 0.39 |
| December 2010 | 10,247 | 5.08 | 0 | 302,084 | 24.44 | 1,032 | 0.34 |
| January 2011 | 12,496 | 4.23 | 0 | 307,286 | 24.36 | 1,054 | 0.34 |
| February 2011 | 14,485 | 5.25 | 0 | 337,472 | 18.07 | 1,025 | 0.30 |
| March 2011 | 19,372 | 4.99 | 0 | 361,111 | 15.25 | 911 | 0.25 |
| April 2011 | 17,148 | 4.59 | 0 | 277,168 | 13.26 | 745 | 0.27 |
| May 2011 | 21,582 | 3.86 | 0 | 284,977 | 13.15 | 716 | 0.25 |
| June 2011 | 21,563 | 4.63 | 0 | 326,472 | 12.04 | 619 | 0.19 |
| July 2011 | 20,947 | 4.71 | 0 | 328,984 | 11.08 | 329 | 0.10 |
| August 2011 | 22,811 | 4.7 | 0 | 315,833 | 10.35 | 152 | 0.05 |
| September 2011 | 20,204 | 4.42 | 0 | 301,085 | 9.54 | 191 | 0.06 |
| October 2011 | 23,638 | 5.42 | 0 | 348,786 | 10.83 | 166 | 0.05 |
| Total | 220,307 | 4.7 | 0 | 3,863,833 | 15.7 | 8,382 | 0.22 |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to ensure that individuals charged with, but not convicted of, criminal offences have recourse to remove any allegations from their enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to ensure that individuals charged with, but not convicted of, criminal offences have recourse to remove any allegations from their enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Criminal Record Bureau's (CRB) policy is on disclosing details of an applicant's sectioning under the Mental Health Act in a CRB certificate when no offence has been committed; whether any assessment has been made of the effects of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Criminal Record Bureau's (CRB) policy is on disclosing details of an applicant's sectioning under the Mental Health Act in a CRB certificate when no offence has been committed; whether any assessment has been made of the effects of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to improve the operation of the criminal record status checks regime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to improve the operation of the criminal record status checks regime.
I have today placed in the Library of the House the report by Mrs Sunita Mason, the independent adviser for criminality information management, of phase 2 of her review of the criminal records regime, as well as the Government's formal response to both phases of that review. I published Mrs...
I have today placed in the Library of the House the report by Mrs Sunita Mason, the independent adviser for criminality information management, of phase 2 of her review of the criminal records regime, as well as the Government's formal response to both phases of that review. I published Mrs...
It might give the hon. Lady some heart if I say that we have listened very carefully to that argument and we are considering whether it would be possible to send notification of a certificate that has not been sent, perhaps going even further than she suggests in telling the...
It might give the hon. Lady some heart if I say that we have listened very carefully to that argument and we are considering whether it would be possible to send notification of a certificate that has not been sent, perhaps going even further than she suggests in telling the...
If they were in regulated activity, they would be barred. It is a duty under the law that they should be checked. The hon. Lady also raised the concerns of the Football Association and Girlguiding UK, but we see no reason why the provisions in the Bill should discourage volunteering....
If they were in regulated activity, they would be barred. It is a duty under the law that they should be checked. The hon. Lady also raised the concerns of the Football Association and Girlguiding UK, but we see no reason why the provisions in the Bill should discourage volunteering....
I do not think that we will reach agreement on that point, because we regard it as disproportionate to give barring information in a situation that is not appropriate for barring—that is, where there is not regulated activity. The concept of the barred status of individuals not appearing on certificates...
I do not think that we will reach agreement on that point, because we regard it as disproportionate to give barring information in a situation that is not appropriate for barring—that is, where there is not regulated activity. The concept of the barred status of individuals not appearing on certificates...