Vetting
Dear Cabinet Office,
I am writing under the FOI act to request information please from the Government Security Group (as the MoD suggested this group holds the information I am seeking https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...)
Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) were placed on the List X database which applies to contractors carrying out work that bears a UK Government classification of SECRET or above. This classification is applied to individuals or groups of individuals and not the whole company. Therefore it is my understanding that individuals within the company must have undergone security checks. I believe individuals are classified by UK Government as follows: Counter Terrorist Check (CTC), Security Check (SC), Developed Vetting: (DV) and Enhanced DV (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vet...), and that there are different time limits for renewal of each of these security checks for individuals in companies with List X status (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/united-kingd...). I am interested in the dates from 2011-2018, how many individuals in the company these status' applied to, for how long please ie when it ended (which is likely to have occurred some time between 2014-18)? ie Please could you tell me how long these clearances applied to X number of individuals in this specific company. You do not have to identify specific individuals it was applied to and reveal personal data to answer my question so I request please as complete an answer as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Emma L Briant
Our ref: FOI2020/16818
Dear Dr Emma L Briant,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 2nd
November. Your request is being handled under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 ('the Act').
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within 20 working days. We will therefore aim to reply at the latest by
1st December.
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Freedom of Information Team
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