Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many barred list checks were made for people in the controlled activity category in each year until that category was repealed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012; and how many of those checks (a) found and (b) did not find matches with the barred list. in each of those years.

The number of applications for barred list checks in the controlled activity category is listed in the table below for each financial year. The category was repealed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.