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December 2014
Police:
Interpreters
Home Office
Nick
de Bois
(Enfield North, Conservative)
To
ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her
Department issues to police forces on their obligation to provide interpreter
services.
Michael
Penning
(The Minister of State, Home Department, The Minister of State, Ministry of
Justice; Hemel Hempstead, Conservative)
The
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code of Practice C (on the Detention,
Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers) sets out the
obligations of chief officers in respect of interpretation and translation
services. Please refer to Section 13 of PACE in particular.
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December 2014
Local Government: Interpreters
Department for Communities and Local Government
Nick de Bois (Enfield North, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department issues to local
authorities on their obligation to provide interpreter services.
Stephen Williams (The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities
and Local Government; Bristol West, Liberal Democrat)
In March 2013, my Department
published new guidance for local authorities outlining how councils should stop
translating and interpreting into foreign languages. As outlined in the Written
Ministerial Statement of 12 March 2013, Official Report, Column 5WS,
such interpretation and translation: weakens integration; discourages
communities from learning English; undermines rather than strengthens equality
goals; harms community relations; and is an expensive waste of taxpayers’ money
at a time when councils need to be making sensible savings.
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