Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Criminal Records Bureau and (b) Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks were conducted in each year for which figures are available. (226612)

The number of Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks which have been dispatched since the CRB's inception are detailed in the following table and separated by the two types of checks that the CRB currently offer, standard or enhanced disclosures:

*Disclosures dispatched*
Financial year	Number of standard disclosures	Number of enhanced disclosures
2002-03	178,375	1,258,719
2003-04	285,130	1,999,558
2004-05	275,197	2,155,740
2005-06	313,368	2,456,897
2006-07	329,223	2,948,734
2007-08	294,592	3,028,659

Volume 480: debated on Thursday 16 October 2008