PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Vetting (7 December 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosure and barring applications have been sent to the Metropolitan Police in each year of the last five years; and what the average time taken by the Metropolitan Police to process checks for Disclosure and Barring Service applications was in each of those years.

Asked by:
Dame Meg Hillier (Labour)

The number of applications that the Disclosure and Barring Service sent to the Metropolitan Police in each of the last five years is set out in the follwoing table, together with the Metropolitan Police’s average processing time for each of those years.

Time Period	Volume Despatched	Turnaround Time (Days)
November 2010 to October 2011	336,358	68.68
November 2011 to October 2012	207,571	33.77
November 2012 to October 2013	191,273	26.95
November 2013 to October 2014	194,984	40.81
November 2014 to October 2015	192,950	65.44

Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
14 December 2015