Speeches

Robert Neill – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Neill on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications for Disclosure and Barring Service checks (a) nationally, (b) in London and (c) in Bromley and Chislehurst constituency met the published service standards for waiting times in the last 6 months.

Karen Bradley

The published service standards are to complete 85% of disclosure applications within 21 days and 95% within 56 days. The tables below show the proportion of applications which met the service standards a) nationally, b) in London and c) in Bromley and Chislehurst.

A) Nationally

Month

% Completed within 21 Calendar Days

% Completed within 56 Calendar Days

Aug-15

83.4%

94.9%

Sep-15

87.3%

95.1%

Oct-15

87.6%

95.4%

Nov-15

86.3%

94.5%

Dec-15

86.0%

94.3%

Jan-16

85.8%

93.9%

Total

86.1%

94.7%

B) London

Month

% Completed within 21 Calendar Days

% Completed within 56 Calendar Days

Aug-15

83.5%

86.7%

Sep-15

85.2%

87.6%

Oct-15

85.7%

88.1%

Nov-15

83.7%

86.2%

Dec-15

80.8%

85.5%

Jan-16

81.2%

83.9%

Total

83.5%

86.4%

C) Bromley and Chislehurst

Month

% Completed within 21 Calendar Days

% Completed within 56 Calendar Days

Aug-15

85.9%

89.1%

Sep-15

86.5%

89.7%

Oct-15

85.4%

88.9%

Nov-15

86.5%

89.5%

Dec-15

80.2%

86.2%

Jan-16

84.7%

87.7%

Total

84.9%

88.6%