Written Question·Home Office·UIN 64925

Disclosure and Barring Service

Tabled: 3 July 2025
Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Jess Brown-Fuller

Liberal DemocratChichester

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 Phillips
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 ...

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