UK Parliament Inquiry into the Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/22172/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

6 November 2024 - Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

Committee Public Services Committee
Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

Meeting details

At 11:00 am: Oral evidence

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

Mr Mike Orlov Director at National Register of Public Service Interpreters (NRPSI)

John Worne Chief Executive at Chartered Institute of Linguists

Sara Robertson CEO at Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)

At 12:00pm: Private discussion

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

 

Public Services Committee

Wednesday 6 November 2024 

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/bd1e56e8-fe5e-43a3-99ce-3a0e5e3b7408

PQ: 1 November 2024

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-10-24.11103.h

Police: Translation Services

Home Office written question – answered at on 1 November 2024.

Rupert Lowe Reform UK, Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of (a) translation and (b) interpretation services provided by (a) all police forces and (b) Norfolk Constabulary each year for the previous five years.

Diana R. Johnson The Minister of State, Home Department

The Home Office does not hold information relating to the proportion of budgets spent on translation and interpretation services for police forces.

Decisions on how to use funding and resources are an operational matter for Chief Constables.

Police and Crime Commissioners are best placed to make resourcing decisions within their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.

Lack of Latvian interpreter delays sentence of Grimsby man

https://www.lincsonline.co.uk/horncastle/van-driver-who-caused-woman-s-death-in-crash-has-sentence-de-9389971/

31 October 2024

Lack of Latvian interpreter delays sentence of Grimsby man

The sentence of a van driver who caused the death of a woman in a crash was adjourned today (Thursday) because there was no Latvian interpreter for the defendant. […]

Stepins of Crownland Avenue, Grimsby, was due to be sentenced on 31 October but a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court was told a Lithuanian interpreter had been booked for defendant by mistake and no Latvian interpreter was available. […]

Judge Simon Hirst promised to investigate the error with the interpreter and agreed to remand Stepins into custody. […]