Nathan Winter

Via Email

28th October 2008

Dear Mr Winter

Thank you for your request, received on 17^th October 2008 made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please find attached our response.

Re-Use of Information

Any information we provide following your request under the Freedom of Information Act will not confer an automatic right for you to re-use that information, for example to publish it. If you wish to re-use the information that we provide and you do not specify this in your initial application for information then you must make a further request for it's re-use as per the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 www.opsi.gov.uk. This will not affect your initial information request.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me.

If you are not content with our response you can request a review by writing to:

Head of Policy

Criminal Records Bureau

PO Box 165

Liverpool

L69 3JD

Yours Sincerely

Ms E Snelham

Freedom of Information Team

FOI Reference Number: 10424

Information Requested:

How many Disclosures when disputed have been found to be incorrect in the last 12 months?

Response:

The CRB have issued 3,323,251 Disclosures in 2007/08, which is the latest period for which information is held. In the same period 2,785 Disclosures when disputed have required correction to the information revealed.

The figure includes Disclosures containing information that was matched with the available data but which was shown to belong to someone else with largely similar details when other information, such as fingerprints where provided.