Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current waiting time is for processing a Disclosure and Barring Service check for a British citizen.

The average process time for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application is 11.37 days (September 2017).

The application form for a DBS check includes a field for nationality, but it is not mandatory to complete, therefore information on nationality is not routinely captured.