Criminal Proceedings: Translation Services
Ministry of Justice written
question – answered on 30th October 2019.
Yasmin Qureshi Shadow Minister (Justice)
To ask the Secretary of
State for Justice, how many cases have been adjourned due to a lack of
translation or interpreting services in each week since the start of 2019 in
all criminal courts.
Chris Philp The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The Ministry does not hold
weekly statistical figures for the information requested.
However, central
information does exist on the number of trials listed in the criminal courts
which were adjourned as a result of interpreters being unavailable in quarterly
figures. This data is published in Criminal Court Statistics, “Trial
effectiveness at the criminal courts tool”.
Latest published statistics
are available to June 2019. Data covering the period July-September 2019 is
provisionally due for publication December 2019.
Our most recent statistics
show the total number of language service requests are at their highest level
since the new contract was introduced in 2016 and the vast majority of these
were fulfilled.
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