The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) do not hold criminal records but do release information held on police records and other data sources.
The total number of disclosures where the details released by the CRB were contested by the applicant in the last five years is detailed in the following table. These are referred to within the disclosure process as disputes and the CRB has procedures in place to allow an applicant to dispute the information provided.
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Total number of disputes 1,739 2,265 2,675 3,077 4,931 Total number of disclosures issued 2,284,688 2,430,937 2,770,265 3,277,957 3,323,251