Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 47154

Employment: Vetting

Tabled: 22 April 2025

Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

John Milne

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of amending the filtering criteria for DBS checks to automatically exclude sentences of 12 months or under on levels of employment of people with criminal re

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

The criminal records regime seeks to strike a balance between providing employers with the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and enabling ex-offenders to rebuild their lives.We are carefully reviewing the evidence in this area befo...

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