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Vetting: Maladministration

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people’s Criminal Records Bureau checks were incorrect in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; (139224)

(2) what estimate he has made of the number and percentage of people whose Criminal Records Bureau information is incorrect.

The following table illustrates the number of disclosures issued where the applicant details were matched by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) to an individual who had a criminal record due to the similarities in the personal details. In these cases, the details were challenged by the applicants and their disclosures were subsequently amended.

Upheld matching disputes

Financial year

Disclosures issued

Number

Percentage

2004-05

2,434,290

1,181

0.048

2005-06

2,772,929

678

0.024

2006-07

3,283,356

724

0.022