Interpreting and Translation Services

I will return to how we proceed from here. I am tempted to comment that people always say that wh...

Has the Committee had an estimate of the impact of the cost of delays, extended custody and the p...

No, but we think that the Ministry of Justice should have some reasonable estimates of those cost...

Does the right hon. Gentleman share my concern that we are hearing from people, such as the chair...

The hon. Gentleman is an assiduous and welcome member of my Committee, but I would not make the r...

I am also a member of the Committee, so I am pleased that we are debating this report. When the M...

I would welcome a reasonable estimate from the Ministry, but I should like it to devote most of i...

It is a pleasure to enter this debate under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I congratulate the r...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Pritchard. This issue is...

I, too, congratulate the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Alan Beith) on initiating ...

Does my right hon. Friend not think that the lesson can be drawn wider than for the translation s...

I of course agree with my hon. Friend. The problem is that the Ministry of Justice has been admin...

It is a pleasure, Mr Pritchard, to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my right hon. Fr...

Before my hon. Friend concludes, I wanted to put this point to him, which is not always recognise...

My right hon. Friend makes a valuable point, which is of great concern to the Public Accounts Com...

Before I call John Mann, to be helpful, I just say that I intend to start the wind-ups at 2.30 pm...

In three minutes, I will summarise my concerns for the Minister and the Chamber. I used to own a ...

Order. I remind the public that we do not allow clapping in Westminster Hall.

2.29 pm

You have ruined the round of applause at the end of my speech, Mr Pritchard. It is a pleasure to ...

Minister, as is convention, I intend to call the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Al...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Pritchard. I genuinely welcome the op...

Will the Minister give way?

Let me make some progress, and I will give way later.

Remuneration now more closely reflect...

A 90% success rate can also be described as a 10% failure rate. Can the Minister remind the House...

The ideal success rate is 98% and I believe the fines were approximately £1,400 or £1,500. I can ...

Does the Minister accept that the vast majority of interpreters who currently refuse to work for ...

I am afraid I do not accept that. We do not have supply problems at the moment. The reality of th...

This matter has been raised with me by a number of constituents who have been affected both as in...

With respect, I do not think that we need to do that. I have no intention of being arrogant. I us...

I understand the drive to save money, but can the Minister be clear whether that £16.7 million sa...

If my hon. Friend will bear with me, I will come to that point—I am barely halfway through and wi...

Will the Minister confirm how many other potential operators were left in the process at the end?...

That is a specific and very fair point, and I will have to write to my hon. Friend about it.

I was not greatly shocked to be told that recovering the figures that I asked for would involve a...

I am afraid that I cannot honestly say any more than I have already said; I do not want to be dis...

Conscientious though my hon. Friend the Minister is, she will not have convinced any of us that t...