Wednesday 2 April 2014

PQ - 2 April 2014

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2014-04-02a.185824.h

2 April 2014
Translation Services
Justice

Mark Hendrick (Preston, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much HM Courts and Tribunal Service spent on interpreters in 2011, 2012 and 2013; how much was spent on interpreting each language in those years; and how much was paid by defendants towards these costs.

Shailesh Vara (The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice; North West Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that the hon. Member has requested. Although we cannot provide all the data on spend for the periods requested we can provide the annual spend for interpreters sourced through the Capita-TI Contract for Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service as follows:
Calendar year
Total (£)
2012
7,940,128.79
2013
           15,537,821.29
Off contract bookings made by HMCTS are outside of these spend figures. The number of bookings made off contract has substantially decreased since the start of 2012 with those bookings moving onto the Capita TI contract. This move from off contract to Capita TI is reflected in the changing year on year contract spend.
Spend for 2012 is based on an 11 month period as the contract did not go live until 30 January 2012. Expenditure has also increased in the second year of contract due to changes made to the contract in May 2013 and an estimated 20% increase on volume. £15 million was saved in year one of the contract.
In this instance to provide the requested information on total annual spend and spend by language, would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.00 or 4½ working days.
In order to provide the information we would be required to obtain a number of large reports from electronic databases. The relevant data must then be manually extracted and collated. It would also require comparison against additional financial data before analysis. We estimate that this process for the spend data would take approximately six working days given the volume of data involved.
Defendants in criminal cases do not contribute towards the costs of interpreters that are provided by HMCTS. Charges for HMCTS provided interpreters in civil, family and tribunal cases are not passed directly to parties, although the costs may be recovered from court and tribunal fees in the jurisdictions where they apply.

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