PQ: 5th September 2019

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Translation Services

Ministry of Justice written question – answered on 5th September 2019.

Yasmin Qureshi Shadow Minister (Justice)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723 on translation services, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in expenditure between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years.

Wendy Morton The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Spend on language services increased in October 2016 as a result of an intentional move by the Ministry of Justice to increase the quality of the services. A new set of contracts commenced in 2016 which included various improvements based on independent recommendations made about the previous contract. These changes included a more robust performance management regime, improved data and the implementation of a new quality assurance service.

Spend on Language Services is expected to fluctuate due to the nature of the contracts being demand led.

PQ: 5th September 2019

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Translation Services: Finance

Ministry of Justice written question – answered on 5th September 2019.

Yasmin Qureshi Shadow Minister (Justice)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was allocated to each provider of translation services in each financial year since 2010-11.

Edward Argar The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

The table below shows the amounts spent on an accruals basis, by HMCTS on suppliers of interpretation and translation services, on an accruals basis, for the financial years 2015-16 to 2018-19. This list is limited to suppliers with whom HMCTS has spent £25,000 or more in total over the last four years. The amount that HMCTS spent with a further 783 smaller suppliers have been aggregated together.

Supplier	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
BOSTICO INTERNATIONAL LTD	6,294.58	17,767.20	49,605.63	35,982.08
CAPITA TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES	6,563,283.65	4,270,630.76	0	0
CLARION INTERPRETING LTD	35,907.17	349,568.23	300,307.47	394,394.39
COMMUNICOURT LTD	9,306.73	44,376.98	57,174.99	21,708.37
CYMEN CYFYNGEDIG	67,316.00	65,413.85	78,203.20	58,382.18
FLEX LANGUAGE SERVICES LTD	49.06	6,662.49	20,128.59	19,650.47
GLOBAL LANGUAGE SERVICES LTD	2,217.78	24,683.79	10,290.89	31,216.58
LANGUAGE LINK PLUS LTD	6,562.39	4,482.45	9,181.68	32,905.71
LOMER TRANSLATIONS & INTERPRETING LTD	0	33,539.00	130,663.10	(1,926.91)
LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM	0	20,938.97	83,925.25	0
R LALLAH	16,885.90	7,018.50	1,474.50	411.40
ONE STOP LANGUAGE SERVICES LTD	187,747.93	351,639.63	471,520.64	425,282.12
TERPTREE LTD	16,332.00	13,304.00	30,696.00	34,788.00
THE LANGUAGE SHOP - LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM	0	0	139,399.80	254,092.87
THEBIGWORD INTERPRETING SERVICES LTD	0	4,130,721.96	9,683,913.69	8,565,658.58
TRANSLATE UK LTD	58,534.63	52,499.10	176,306.19	415,314.41
TRIANGLE SERVICES LTD	0	12,491.95	30,330.64	9,588.08
UK LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS LTD	13,628.95	49,926.65	22,730.04	106,362.65
UK TRANSLATION SERVICES LTD	0	0	0	43,769.10
WESSEX TRANSLATIONS LTD	4,820.85	2,285.23	17,470.33	26,843.62
783 other smaller suppliers	123,061.68	225,843.59	174,397.05	526,267.06