Question follow-through · 64925
Disclosure and Barring Service
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to set up an independent body to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks with formalised processing time targets.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to set up an independent body to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks with formalised processing time targets.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
As an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body of the Home Office, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is already an operationally independent body. It also already operates to formalised service standards of completing 85% of Basic check applications ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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