Courts: Interpreters
(asked on 19th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual value is of the private contract to provide interpreters to courts in England and Wales; and how much is spend on each region on that contract.
The Ministry of Justice has two contracts which provide face to face interpreting services to courts and tribunals, Lot 1 (Face to Face, Telephone and Remote Foreign Language Interpreting) and Lot 3 (Face to Face and Remote Non-Spoken Language Interpreting). These contracts began on 31st October 2016 and make provision for the Ministry of Justice, her Agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies as well as other organisations such as the Crown Prosecution Service to procure these services.
The spend in the first year of these contracts (31st October 2016 – 31st October 2017) was as follows, with the spend relating to Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service bookings broken down by region:
Lot 1
HMCTS Region | Spend |
London | £11,569,011 |
Midlands | £4,646,429 |
National Business Centre | £416,330 |
North East | £2,331,041 |
North West | £2,171,464 |
Scotland | £439,775 |
South East | £3,369,445 |
South West | £896,494 |
Wales | £784,002 |
Total (HMCTS) | £26,623,993 |
Total (all commissioning bodies) | £27,978,803 |
Lot 3
HMCTS Region | Spend |
London | £193,731 |
Midlands | £122,031 |
National Business Centre | £173,418 |
North East | £116,511 |
North West | £63,255 |
Scotland | £9,240 |
South East | £106,269 |
South West | £39,675 |
Wales | £31,160 |
West Midlands | £380 |
Total (HMCTS) | £855,671 |
Total (all commissioning bodies) | £1,135,167 |