Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how (a) much funding was allocated to and (b) many staff were employed by the (i) Independent Safeguarding Authority, (ii) Criminal Records Bureau in each year till December 2012 and (iii) Disclosure and Barring Service in each year since December 2012.

Tables (i), (ii) and (iii) provide the total funding allocated to the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), by the Home Office for the last eight financial years.

The figures for the ISA and CRB are provided up to 1 December 2012 when these organisations ceased to exist, following the creation of the DBS.

Data is only partially available prior to 2008-09 and cannot be obtained without incurring a disproportionate cost.

Table (i) - ISA

Table (ii) – CRB*

Table (iii) – DBS*

*The CRB and DBS are self funding, the figures therefore relate to the Home Office capital allocation to CRB and DBS. The ISA figures relate to the Grant in Aid provided by the Home Office. It is important to note that, as fee-funded organisations, the CRB and DBS receive the majority of their income from fees.

Table (iv) provides the average number of full time equivalent staff the DBS, ISA and CRB employed during each of the last eight financial years.

Table (iv)

2015-16 data for the DBS is due to be published shortly.