Question follow-through · 13725

Disclosure and Barring Service: Sussex Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to reduce the number of people waiting for enhanced DBS checks to be processed by Sussex Police Force.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 13 Nov 2024
Answer: 19 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to reduce the number of people waiting for enhanced DBS checks to be processed by Sussex Police Force.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Sussex Police are operationally independent. The prompt completion of enhanced DBS checks is an important part of the safeguarding system, and I understand that several measures have already been introduced to ...

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