Vetting
(asked on 13th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of (a) how many and (b) what proportion of Disclosure and Barring Service applications took longer than 60 days in each of the last five years.
The number and proportion of Disclosure applications that took longer than 60 days to process is provided in the table below. The Disclosure and Barring Service was established in December 2012. Data prior to this date relates to the Criminal Records Bureau.
Financial Year | Total Despatched | Number issued over 60 days | % issued over 60 days |
2014-15 year to date | 2,046,233 | 60,249 | 2.9% |
2013-14 | 3,948,733 | 83,299 | 2.1% |
2012-13 | 4,066,605 | 42,839 | 1.1% |
2011-12 | 4,074,241 | 105,260 | 2.6% |
2010-11 | 4,311,816 | 454,065 | 10.5% |
2009-10 | 4,299,496 | 354,150 | 8.2% |
Total | 22,747,124 | 1,099,862 | 4.8% |