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The Ministry of Justice has rejected or deferred most of the recommendations made by the independent assessors it hired to reconsider the calamitous outsourcing of language services in the courts, currently run by Capita
Police had requests for interpreters able to translate 75 different languages in West Yorkshire during the last year, force statistics have revealed
In 2011, the MoJ outsourced interpretation work in the courts to Applied Language Solutions - which was sold to Capita before the contract began. A year after the sale, the House of Commons justice select committee described the ministry's move as "shambolic". Two years later, not much seems to have improved.
Police across Shropshire and Mid Wales have spent more than £2.5 million on foreign language interpreters over the past five years, according to new figures
