Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) procedures and (b) timescales are by which findings of not guilty are entered into the criminal record database; and at what point a person found not guilty receives a clear Disclosure and Barring Service check.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service is responsible for ensuring that case outcome and sentence information, including whether the defendant was found guilty or not guilty, is sent to the police for inclusion on the Police National Computer (PNC). The average time taken to send case results to the police in the financial year 2015/16 was 1.3 working days.

The Ministry of Justice has no further involvement in Disclosure and Barring Service processes and is a matter for the Home Office.