Form

Change of personal circumstances questionnaire: criminal conviction/arrest/caution

Complete this form if you hold a security clearance and you are arrested, refused bail, receive a caution or are convicted.

• From: United Kingdom Security Vetting
• Published: 7 October 2016
• Last updated: 9 November 2022 — See all updates

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Change of personal circumstances: Criminal issues

PDF, 1.32 MB, 10 pages

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If you hold a DV, SC, Level 1B or CTC security clearance you should inform UKSV if you are arrested, refused bail, have received a police caution, reprimand or final warning or are convicted of an offence (other than minor road traffic offences).

UKSV has introduced a new process to allow a Change of Personal Circumstances (CPC) to be submitted via the NSVS portal. Clearance holders are asked to use the CPC portal service if at all possible.

You no longer need to download and email a copy of the Change of Personal Circumstances: criminal conviction/arrest/caution form to UKSV, unless your organisation has specific agreement with UKSV that a manual form is required.

A copy of the form is retained on this page for use only in those exceptional circumstances.

All holders of a valid clearance can access the CPC portal service via NSVS.

https://nsv.mod.uk/

Please follow the new process via the CPC portal wherever possible.

However, should you still need to submit a Change of Personal Circumstances form manually and your organisation has prior agreement with UKSV, open the attached PDF document on this page and enter your details. Save a copy of the completed form to your desktop, then email the completed form as an attachment to uksv-cpcs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

Please note that the old UKSV-CPC-Grp@mod.gov.uk CPC mailbox has now permanently closed, as of 1st December 2022.

UKSV are in the process of updating all our guidance to include our new contact details. All current contact details for UKSV can be found on our Contact Us page.

If you are sending any information that directly relates to National Security or is protected information please do ensure that you reclassify this document as Official Sensitive and protect it accordingly. In these instances we would advise you to send the information via secure email rather than over the open internet.

Published 7 October 2016
Last updated 9 November 2022 + show all updates

1. 9 November 2022

   Guidance updated to reflect new CPC portal process. CPC mailbox has been updated from MOD to Cabinet Office

2. 16 December 2020

   Attachment updated to an interactive version

3. 23 November 2020

   Updated guidance for submitting the completed form.

4. 22 April 2020

   Guidance for sending forms electronically whilst Covid-19 measures are in place has been added.

5. 25 May 2018

   Updated form with latest version

6. 19 April 2017

   Replaced form with latest edition

7. 7 October 2016

   First published.