Court hearing of Coventry man accused of stabbing moved due to 'lack of interpreter'

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/court-hearing-coventry-man-accused-31789769

4 June 2025

Court hearing of Coventry man accused of stabbing moved due to 'lack of interpreter'

A Coventry man accused of seriously injuring a man in a stabbing has appeared at Ipswich Crown Court. Yayha Luqmen attended a hearing yesterday, but it had to be rescheduled. […]

Clerks at Ipswich Crown Court said the hearing 'could not be effective due to the lack of an interpreter.' […]

FoI Request - Kent Community Health

https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019.232-Interpreting-and-Translation-Services.pdf

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act – 2019.232 Released – 5 September 2019: https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019.232-Interpreting-and-Translation-Services.pdf

There isn’t good data on how much the NHS spends on translators

https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-translators-cost/

12th Apr 2019

There isn’t good data on how much the NHS spends on translators

[…] Information on how much NHS England spends on translation services is not held centrally. Last year the Department of Health and Social Care, responded to a question from an MP on the subject of NHS translation services, saying: “there has been no central audit of translation services in the National Health Service, as these services are commissioned by individual NHS organisations.”