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Courts: Translation Services
Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 6 December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK, Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of court cases that collapsed due to the lack of an available interpreter in (a) Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court and (b) England and Wales in the last 12 months.
Sarah Sackman The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice does not collate information regarding “collapsed trials” due to the lack of interpreter availability, but the Department does routinely publish data concerning ineffective trials including where the reason is “no interpreter available” as part of the Accredited Official Statistics series Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly. An ineffective trial is a trial that does not go ahead on the scheduled trial date and a further listing is required.
In response to the questions (a) and (b), we confirm the following, based on the above description:
- There were five ineffective trials where the reason was “no interpreter available” at Great Yarmouth magistrates’ courts in 2023.
- There were 556 ineffective trials where the reason was “no interpreter available” at all magistrates’ courts in England and Wales in 2023, this accounted for less than 1% of all listed trials in that period.
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Courts: Great Yarmouth
Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 6 December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK, Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court cases has the defendant required a translator in each of the last 10 years.
Sarah Sackman The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
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Ministry of Justice: Languages
Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 6 December 2024.
Chris Hinchliff Labour, North East Hertfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to publish the independent review of her Department’s language services.
Heidi Alexander The Secretary of State for Transport
We have been considering the findings of the independent review to help inform the development of new tender specifications. This is a complex process and covers a wide range of agencies within the Ministry of Justice. Once all internal governance has been completed the review will be released, we expect to publish the outcome by 31 December 2024.
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