Written Question·Home Office·UIN 82072

Metropolitan Police: Vetting

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to strengthen the national framework for the Metropolitan Police’s vetting processes to (a) identify and (b) exclude applicants with discriminatory attitudes on the basis of cha

Answer

Sarah Jones
Police forces are expected to carry out vetting in alignment with the national framework set out in the College of Policing’s statutory Vetting Code of Practice and accompanying Vetting Authorised Professional Practice (APP).Vetting decision-making is mad...

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