Question follow-through · 123793

Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish information held by the Disclosure and Barring Service on DBS checks issued in the most recent year by (a) sector, (b) occupation and (c) Standard Industrial Classification.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
13 Apr 2026
Answer
13 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish information held by the Disclosure and Barring Service on DBS checks issued in the most recent year by (a) sector, (b) occupation and (c) Standard Industrial Classification.

  2. 13 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is operationally independent and therefore responsible for the information it publishes.The organisation currently publishes performance against its targets at DBS dataset 1: DBS checks, the DBS Update Service, and...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Members: Correspondence

13 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister for Policing and Crime plans to respond to the letter of 17 March 2026 from the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Correspondence and Written Questions

22 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to (a) Question 126758 and (b) the letter of 17 March 2026 from the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs.