Written Question·Home Office·UIN 64925
Disclosure and Barring Service
Tabled: 3 July 2025
Answered: 10 July 2025
Question
Jess Brown-Fuller
Liberal Democrat — Chichester
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.
Answer
Jess PhillipsAs 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 ...
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