Originally Posted by
Asturias56
One question is why has the number of people who require clearance gone up suddenly?
My bet is that with the Chinese IT scare a whole herd of extra jobs have been deemed sensitive and so are requiring clearance. And of course no-one thought through the implications for vetting.
I've been through the process at 3 times in various jobs and, as with Downsizer, I though they were very thorough and very polite.
One slightly unexpected reason is - believe it or not - the Census. The solution to GDPR and similar issues that might have allowed identification of individuals during processing of returns led to the ONS deciding to treat that data as one might treat data that is above O-S, which led to a requirement for SC clearance for a number of ONS staff. Barking decision IMO, but that's the CS for you......