3 - Supervision
after end of sentence
Offender
Rehabilitation Bill [Lords]
28
November 2013
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith,
Labour)
I
mention once again the contract for interpreting and translation, which has now
been running for two years and which currently—I looked up the latest figures
after the last sitting—is fulfilling 88.5% of its contract, which means that
about 60 hearings every day face disruption. Almost 10,000 complaints were
received between January 2012 and June 2013—39% because the contractor could
not supply interpreters, 16% because the interpreter did
not attend, 15% because they came late and 4%, the most serious, relating to
the quality of interpreting. Moreover, in the second quarter of 2013, there
were 23% more complaints than in the same period for 2012. That disastrous
contract, which is now resulting in 7% of bookings being made outside the
system, should of itself be a sufficient lesson to the Government—despite the
Secretary of State’s willingness to “just go for it” on these occasions—to walk
before they can run on these matters.
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