Home Department written question – answered at on 12 January 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the European Criminal Record Information system will allow the vetting of prospective employees by (a) airport authorities and (b) other sensitive employers; and what estimate she has made of the speed with which a request for information on a prospective employee's record could be answered.
In October, the EU agreed a Council Decision on the establishment of the European Criminal Record Information System (ECRIS). This proposal is designed to provide a standardised format for the secure electronic exchange of criminal records information including the offence and the sentence.
Criminal record exchange in the EU is still currently governed by Council Decision 2005/876/JHA of
Where the UKCA-ECR receives this information, it is recorded on our police national computer. It will therefore be available to the Criminal Records Bureau and Disclosure Scotland.
When ECRIS is implemented, it will allow swifter exchange of criminal records information than is the case now.
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