| Heading: |
Councillors: Vetting |
| Question ID: |
1809369 |
| UIN: |
57523 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5279 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jayne Kirkham
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| Asking Member handle: |
jaynekirkham4
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@jaynekirkham4
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will consider introducing enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks as a condition of being a councillor. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-11 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4569 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jim McMahon
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| Answering Member handle: |
JimfromOldham
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JimfromOldham
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
Disclosure and Barring Service checks (‘DBS checks’) for local government members are currently optional; it is for individual local authorities to adopt eligible DBS checks as they feel necessary.I am considering the benefits and disbenefits to potential... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |