| Heading: |
Vetting: Fraud |
| Question ID: |
1794334 |
| UIN: |
45743 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4592 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Caroline Johnson
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| Asking Member handle: |
drcarolinej
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@drcarolinej
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4370 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jess Phillips
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Jess Phillips
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
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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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |