To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s publication, Statistics on disregards and pardons for historical gay sexual convictions, published on 23 October 2017, what estimate she has made of the proportion of cases submitted to the disregards process that have been accepted.

The figures published on 23 October 2017 show the Home Office has received 255 applications pertaining to offences that can be considered for a disregard. For offences to be disregarded, certain criteria must be met, the activity must have been consensual; with a person of 16 or over, and must not be an offence today. Of these 255 applications, 161applications met the required criteria and were granted a disregard.