PQs - 19 Oct 2012

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19 Oct 2012 
Courts: Interpreters
Justice

Valerie Vaz (Walsall South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many civil court cases have been adjourned as a result of lack of interpreters supplied by Applied Language Solutions in the last 12 months for which figures are available. 
Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald, Conservative)
The reasons for civil court case adjournments are not recorded as a matter of course. It is not possible to identify which adjournments are due to a lack of interpreter.

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19 October 2012 
Courts: Interpreters
Justice

Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent assessment he has made of the quality of interpretation services in courts in England and Wales following changes to the centralised contract. 
Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald, Conservative)
Under the previous arrangements there was no monitorable system for recording complaints about quality. The contract with Applied Language Solutions provides the Ministry, for the first time, with a way to monitor complaints related to interpretation and translation.
Statistics published on 18 October 2012 by the Ministry of Justice on interpretation services show that of 72,043 completed requests for language services, there were 174 complaints related to interpreter quality.