Meg Hillier – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Meg Hillier on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces take longest to process applications from the Disclosure and Barring Service; and what the average processing time for such application is for each police force in England.
Karen Bradley
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.
The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.
|
Force Name |
Average Days Taken By Force |
|
Avon And Somerset |
7.4 |
|
Bedfordshire |
3.5 |
|
Cambridgeshire |
10.9 |
|
Cheshire |
10.7 |
|
City of London |
9.0 |
|
Cleveland |
8.6 |
|
Cumbria |
13.8 |
|
Derbyshire |
14.8 |
|
Devon And Cornwall |
4.7 |
|
Dorset |
76.6 |
|
Durham |
15.3 |
|
Essex |
16.2 |
|
Gloucester |
11.1 |
|
Greater Manchester |
12.8 |
|
Hampshire |
11.4 |
|
Hertfordshire |
10.5 |
|
Humberside |
9.8 |
|
Kent |
18.5 |
|
Lancashire |
5.0 |
|
Leicestershire |
7.7 |
|
Lincolnshire |
9.2 |
|
Merseyside |
8.2 |
|
Metropolitan |
85.2 |
|
Norfolk |
1.6 |
|
North Yorkshire |
17.9 |
|
Northamptonshire |
17.1 |
|
Northumbria |
13.9 |
|
Nottinghamshire |
10.9 |
|
South Yorkshire |
21.7 |
|
Staffordshire |
10.7 |
|
Suffolk |
8.8 |
|
Surrey |
13.1 |
|
Sussex |
17.5 |
|
Thames Valley |
60.3 |
|
Warwickshire |
7.2 |
|
West Mercia |
9.3 |
|
West Midlands |
21.2 |
|
West Yorkshire |
12.3 |
|
Wiltshire |
4.8 |
