Vetting
(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the expected processing time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
This question was answered on 5th January 2015
The current Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) service standard is to issue 88% of all Disclosures within 40 working days. Latest figures, relating to November 2014, show that the average time taken to process a DBS Disclosure application was 10.55 working days.