Written Question·Home Office·UIN 45743

Vetting: Fraud

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Dr Caroline Johnson

ConservativeSleaford and North Hykeham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the (a) number and (b) proportion of Disclosure and Barring Service certificates provided to employers which are (i) fake and (ii) falsified.

Answer

Jess Phillips
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is operationally independent from the Home Office and neither Home Office or DBS holds estimates on either the number or proportion of DBS certificates which are fake or falsified. However, the DBS does publish gui...

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