Lord Greaves – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Greaves on 2014-04-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average waiting time for completion of disclosure and barring service checks in the (1) standard, (2) enhanced, and (3) enhanced with list checks, categories.

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

For the financial year 2013-14 the average turnaround times were as follows :-

All Enhanced Disclosures: 11.9 Days (3,715,222 Disclosures)
All Standard Disclosures: 4.8 Days (233,511 Disclosures)

Enhanced disclosures are broken into :-

Enhanced Disclosures with List Checks: 12 Days (3,554,721 Disclosures)
Enhanced Disclosures with NO List Checks: 10.9 Days (160,501 Disclosures)