Topical Questions
Oral Answers to Questions —
Justice
3 July 2012
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood, Labour)
Is the Minister able to put a figure on how much
the repeated failure of Applied Language Solutions to provide interpreters in
court proceedings has cost the taxpayer through delayed proceedings?
Crispin Blunt (Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State (Prisons and Probation), Justice; Reigate, Conservative)
We have published assessments of ALS’s performance,
and we will continue to do so, but it is impossible to arrive at the numbers
the hon. Lady is seeking. Her question seems to imply that the previous system
for booking interpreters was a model of exactitude and correctitude; it was
not. ALS’s performance is now reaching the required contract level.
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