§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the cost of the Criminal Records Bureau referred to by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State during the adjournment debate of 23rd July 2002,Official Report,
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Disclosures received and issued by month Net receipts (e) Returned to organisation (b)(i) Standard disclosures issued (b)(ii) Enhanced disclosures issued (f) Total disclosures issued March 2002 2,306 459 22 20 42 April 2002 34,301 5,412 409 2,389 2,798 May 2002 82,821 5,044 2,070 17,376 19,446 June 2002 88,442 1,762 4,315 30,585 34,900 column 199WH, fall during the period of the cost recovery plan; and whether the estimate of the costs has changed. [112037]
§ Paul Goggins£406 million (44 per cent) of the £930 million Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) costs fall during the period of the cost recovery plan.
Until the contract negotiations with the principal business partner have been completed and a revised business plan produced it is not possible to state whether this estimate of costs has changed.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Criminal Record Bureau's revised forecasts of demand for(a) standard and (b) enhanced disclosures are for (i) 2003–04 and (ii) 2004–05. [112043]
§ Paul GogginsDemand for Higher-level Disclosures in 2003–04 are forecast to be 2.6 million, 2.21 million Enhanced Disclosures and 390 thousand Standard Disclosures. Demand for Higher-level Disclosures in 2004–05 are forecast to be 3 million, 2.55 million Enhanced and 450 thousand Standards.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much it cost to implement the paper-based application route for the Criminal Records Bureau. [112045]
§ Paul GogginsThe Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) paid £2,106,667 to Capita in respect of a Contract Change Note to implement the paper-based application route. It is estimated that a further £7.1 million has been spent by the CRB in respect of its additional operating costs.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each month since the Criminal Records Bureau started operations the(a) number of applications received, (b) the number of (i) standard and (ii) enhanced disclosures issued, (c) the number of applications outstanding, (d) the number of applications outstanding for more than (A) three weeks, (B) six weeks and (C) nine weeks, (e) the number of applications returned to registered bodies and (f) the number of total disclosures issued. [112046]
§ Paul GogginsThe following table details a breakdown of the total number of disclosures received and cleared by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) in three weeks, six weeks and nine weeks since March 2002, up to the end of April 2003. Not all the information sought by the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam is available in the format requested. There are no IT procedures at present to differentiate between Standard and Enhanced Disclosures that are outstanding and figures representing the breakdown of those applications that were outstanding for longer than three, six and nine weeks are not available any earlier than November 2002. 867W
Disclosures received and issued by month Net receipts (e) Returned to organisation (b)(i) Standard disclosures issued (b)(ii) Enhanced disclosures issued (f) Total disclosures issued July 2002 134,206 25,187 12,828 76,258 89,086 August 2002 129,049 14,981 14,116 96,295 110,411 September 2002 185,153 19,715 16,613 118,505 135,118 October 2002 208,784 18,556 22,620 159,226 181,846 November 2002 171,893 15,570 23,257 159,199 182,456 December 2002 138,454 13,330 22,347 148,707 171,054 January 2003 144,538 16,330 18,251 152,442 170,693 February 2003 161,286 16,938 20,816 142,330 163,146 March 2003 174,832 20,667 21,814 158,915 180,729 April 2003 151,676 18,602 19,700 140,259 159,959 Total 1,807,741 192,553 199,178 1,402,506 1,601.684
(d)(A) 0–3 weeks (d)(B) 3–6 weeks (d)(C) Over 6 weeks (c) Total November 2002 77,147 47,152 139,232 263,531 December 2002 59,960 39,009 152,365 251,334 January 2003 78,782 13,796 133,861 226,439 February 2003 83,574 25,409 91,789 200,772 March 2003 88,326 20,128 69,822 178,276 April 2003 76,299 20,807 21,147 118,253 In order to process a Disclosure application the CRB requires a correctly completed application form. Where forms are incomplete or incorrectly completed, they are returned to the applicant or to the Registered Body.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Criminal Records Bureau has commissioned a review of the code provided by Capita. [112098]
§ Paul GogginsTo date, the Criminal Records Bureau has not commissioned a review of the code provided by Capita and there are no current plans to do so in the future.