§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 13 June,Official Report, column 287–88, if her Department has access to the Department of Health's consultancy index; and in what circumstances it cross-checks its inquiries with the Department of Health's list. [34395]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe Department holds a copy of that part of the Department of Health's consultancy index that is compiled on the basis of reports from employers— the adverse reports index. That index, and list 99, is checked when the Department arranges a police check on the criminal background of a prospective employee on behalf of a school that cannot arrange such checks through a local education authority.