Daniel Zeichner – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the timeliness of the processing of Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

Karen Bradley

The average processing time for disclosure applications is 15.3 days and 94.3% of applications are issued within 8 weeks, as of December 2015. Some Enhanced Certificate applications are referred to relevant police forces. DBS is working closely with the small number of forces whose performance does not meet turnaround targets.