Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications for Care Quality Commission DBS checks used the ID verification service at Oldham Post Office.
According to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) data, a total of 16,974 applications for a CQC DBS check were submitted between 1 July 2017 and 1 July 2018.
The Post Office transactional data shows that 220 CQC DBS applications were processed at the Oldham Post Office between the same period.
The proportion is close to 1.3%.