Inquiries Bichard Inquiry Reported
Government response Home Office: Accepted (Dec 2004)
Delivery Home Office says completed (Nov 2005)

R26: Address verification guidance

From The Bichard Inquiry Report, published 22 June 2004.

Recommendation

Guidance should be issued to Registered Bodies on how to verify that applicants have given a full and accurate account of their current and past addresses.

Jurisdiction: UK-wide

In brief (written by this site)

In its second progress report in November 2005, the Home Office stated that recommendation 26, alongside recommendations 24, 27 and 29, was "implemented and mainstreamed" (Home Office, Nov 2005). The department had previously reported in its December 2004 progress report that the guidance issued to Registered Bodies had undergone a complete review to improve its content and usability (Home Office response, Dec 2004).

Sources

Home Office, Nov 2005

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Government response

Accepted Home Office
22 Dec 2004
Response document: Bichard Inquiry Recommendations: Progress Report
Words of: Home Office, Bichard Inquiry Recommendations: Progress Report, 22 December 2004

The guidance issued to Registered Bodies has undergone a complete review to improve its content and usability.

Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.

Scope of the government response

The Government accepted all 31 recommendations collectively: the Home Secretary's written statement of 11 January 2005 records that "All 31 recommendations were accepted by the Government when the Inquiry reported in June 2004". No document states an acceptance decision for any single recommendation. The response shown against each recommendation is the Home Office's answer to it in the first progress report, sent to Sir Michael Bichard on 22 December 2004 and placed in the Library of the House on 11 January 2005. The Government then reported against the recommendations three more times, in November 2005, May 2006 and May 2007; the updates shown are taken from those reports.

Delivery

Home Office says completed (7 November 2005)

Recommendations 24, 26, 27 and 29 are implemented and mainstreamed.

From: Bichard Inquiry Recommendations: Second Progress Report

Source

Inquiry Bichard Inquiry
Report The Bichard Inquiry Report 22 Jun 2004
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Responsible bodies

Home Office Primary

Themes and tags

Police Vetting Inconsistencies Vetting Identity Verification

Who has spoken

  • Home Office
    Response, delivery statement
Recommendation made 22.3 years ago