Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 7 August 2014 to Question 205989, on vetting and the Disclosure and Barring Service, if she will provide those statistics for (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

For the period of 2010 I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 5 January 2016, UIN 20698. For the period of 2014 I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 5 January 2016, UIN 20698.

Information relating to the reasons and the harm type under which each person was so placed cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate costs.

Tables 1 and 2 show the number of people who were added to the Children’s and Adults’ Barred Lists for the years 2015 and 2016.

Table 1: Children’s Barred List

Table 2: Adults’ Barred List