18 March 2013 by Malcolm Fowler
Ministry doublespeak
The
embarrassing court interpreter outsourcing saga continues. Courts minister
Helen Grant repeats the same old mantra of ‘a dramatic improvement in the
interpreter contract’.
Who says,
exactly? The Ministry of Justice has in all conscience been asked this often
enough. When its responses are shorn of Sir Humphrey-esque verbiage and
doublespeak, the answer seems increasingly clear: Capita itself. Its reports
and statistics, it is shrewdly suspected, are regurgitated uncritically by the
ministry. After all, the MoJ keeps no statistics of its own; we have its word
for that.
How
convenient for Capita and its shareholders. It can, with relative impunity,
assert that everything in the garden is lovely while we at the coalface know
how absurd a claim that is. Here, I mean advocates, court personnel and the
judiciary.
Malcolm Fowler, Dennings,
Tipton
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