Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of Metropolitan Police Service performance against the terms set out in its service level agreement with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The Disclosure and Barring Service regularly publishes data on police force performance, which can be located through the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance

I visited the Metropolitan Police Service disclosure unit on 2 September. I regularly receive reports from the Disclosure and Barring Service on the performance of the Metropolitan Police Service. I have made it clear that delays must be addressed. The Disclosure and Barring Service is working with the Metropolitan Police Service to reduce turnaround times as quickly as possible, which includes additional funding, staff and training, process improvement and support from other forces.