PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Vetting (8 April 2016)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Dame Meg Hillier (Labour)
Answer
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.
The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.
Force Name | Average Days Taken By Force |
Avon And Somerset | 7.4 |
Bedfordshire | 3.5 |
Cambridgeshire | 10.9 |
Cheshire | 10.7 |
City of London | 9.0 |
Cleveland | 8.6 |
Cumbria | 13.8 |
Derbyshire | 14.8 |
Devon And Cornwall | 4.7 |
Dorset | 76.6 |
Durham | 15.3 |
Essex | 16.2 |
Gloucester | 11.1 |
Greater Manchester | 12.8 |
Hampshire | 11.4 |
Hertfordshire | 10.5 |
Humberside | 9.8 |
Kent | 18.5 |
Lancashire | 5.0 |
Leicestershire | 7.7 |
Lincolnshire | 9.2 |
Merseyside | 8.2 |
Metropolitan | 85.2 |
Norfolk | 1.6 |
North Yorkshire | 17.9 |
Northamptonshire | 17.1 |
Northumbria | 13.9 |
Nottinghamshire | 10.9 |
South Yorkshire | 21.7 |
Staffordshire | 10.7 |
Suffolk | 8.8 |
Surrey | 13.1 |
Sussex | 17.5 |
Thames Valley | 60.3 |
Warwickshire | 7.2 |
West Mercia | 9.3 |
West Midlands | 21.2 |
West Yorkshire | 12.3 |
Wiltshire | 4.8 |
Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
18 April 2016
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