Baroness asks 4 questions regarding ALS performance
Baroness Coussins to ask Her Majesty’s Government how many court cases have been adjourned due to the lack of a qualified, vetted professional interpreter being provided under the Applied Language Solutions framework agreement. HL16356
Baroness Coussins to ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current daily cost of court adjournments and other disruptions to the criminal justice system because of a lack of qualified, vetted professional interpreters. HL16357
Baroness Coussins to ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the interpreters registered with Applied Language Solutions to provide services under the framework agreement for the criminal justice system are unqualified or unvetted. HL16358
Baroness Coussins to ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of representations from the Association of Police and Court Interpreters and the Society for Public Service Interpreting that they could achieve savings in expenditure by the criminal justice system on interpreting and translating of 40 per cent per annum. HL16359
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