Ian Austin – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the dates are of the oldest applications currently being processed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Karen Bradley

The Disclosure and Barring Service is currently processing 36 applications that were received more than 12 months ago. No case is older than 19 months.

There are a number of reasons why some cases may take longer than others to process.