Thursday 4 December 2014

PQs - 4 December 2014

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4 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.




4 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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