Employment: Vetting
Commons · Question 47154 · Tabled 22 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by John Milne
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of amending the filtering criteria for DBS checks to automatically exclude sentences of 12 months or under on levels of employment of people with criminal re
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 29 Apr 2025
The criminal records regime seeks to strike a balance between providing employers with the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and enabling ex-offenders to rebuild their lives.We are carefully reviewing the evidence in this area befo...