Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of translation and interpreter services used by (a) the courts system, (b) Crown courts and (c) magistrates courts in (i) Bury St Edmunds, (ii) Suffolk, (iii) the East of England and (iv) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

To provide you with the information requested on overall spend for the last five years in (a) the courts system, (b) Crown courts and (c) magistrates courts in (i) Bury St Edmunds, (ii) Suffolk, (iii) the East of England and (iv) England and Wales, would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.

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. The relevant data must then be manually extracted and linked to a timesheet and collated.