Thursday 28 November 2013

28 November 2013

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2013-14/Offender_Rehabilitation_Bill/04-0_2013-11-28a.2.0?id=04-0_2013-11-28a.2.0

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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