Christopher Chope – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Chope on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of interpretation services provided to the (a) magistrates’ courts and (b) Crown Court in England and Wales in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that has been requested. In order to provide the information we would be required toobtain a number of large reports from individual locations. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.