HC Deb 27 March 2003 vol 402 c343W
Mr. Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken to process a Criminal Records Bureau check on an employee or consultant of the Connexions service has been. [103682]

Hilary Benn

There are no IT procedures at present to extract the information requested from the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) database. The estimated average turnaround of checks processed by the CRB remains at approximately five weeks. This is measured from the point at which a correctly completed form is received by the CRB, accompanied by all relevant supporting details.