Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 21044, how many applicants who applied for both a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Adult First Check and a DBS check subsequently failed their DBS check after receiving (a) No Match Found responses and (b) wait for full disclosure responses in their DBS Adult First checks in each year since 2012.

The DBS is establishing the complex data required for this answer and this involves interrogating key systems to establish the correct information.

I will write to the Honourable Member separately as soon as their work is concluded.