Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for the Disclosure and Barring Service to make decisions on DBS checks; and what he average time taken is to process a DBS application.

The DBS aims to produce 87% of Standard and Enhanced Disclosure certificates within 21 days and 96% within 42 days. For the Basic level check the aim is to produce 90% within 14 days. The current average turnaround time for Standard and Enhanced certificates is just less than 10 days and for

Basic checks it is just less than four days.