Negative Vetting (Hansard, 1 February 1989)

§ Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Prime Minister (1) if she will make a statement on the use of negative vetting of(a) civil servants and (b) others working directly or indirectly for the Government;

(2) if she will publish a table showing how many civil servants have been negatively vetted in each Government Department from 1979 to the current date;

(3) if she will publish a table showing the total number of civil servants as part of their duties involved in negative vetting investigations of employees and potential employees in each Department from 1979 to the current date;

(4) if she will publish a table showing the total number of negative vetting investigators employed in each Department from 1979 to the current date;

(5) if she will place in the Library official forms issued to negative vetting investigators from each Government Department;

(6) if she will describe the procedures used in negative vetting;

(7) how many civil servants in each Government Department failed negative vetting in each of the last 10 years;

(8) which civil service or other Government-appointed posts require negative vetting;

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(9) what guidelines to Government Departments are issued on how negative vetting of employees and prospective employees is to be undertaken;

(10) how individual civil servants are informed that they have failed negative vetting procedures; and what rights of appeal they have.