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date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	ACAS: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to make (a) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and (b) other services more accessible for non-English speaking workers.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	230889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Acas has a contractual relationship with ‘The Big Word’ to provide translation services. This commenced in July 2017 following the end of a contract with a previous provider. Acas are contacted by customers who require a translation service approximately 536 times per month, and the majority of these contacts are customers phoning their employment law Helpline for advice. Acas are supplied by ‘The Big Word’ with translators which cover many languages with Polish being the most popular, though they have used translators who are able to speak less common languages such as Turkmen.</p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, based in BEIS, provides support direct to agency workers and also offers translation facilities through ‘the Big Word’.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 15/03/2019 12:02:03 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 107880 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1064368

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date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Endoscopy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 14 February to Question 219561 on Endoscopy: Recruitment, how many of the 202 clinical endoscopists have now completed their training and are able to undertake procedures in flexible sigmoidoscopy.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	223842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Trainees in Health Education England’s Clinical Endoscopy programme choose, depending on their trust’s requirements, to train in one endoscopy modality - either flexible sigmoidoscopy or upper gastrointestinal. Of the 202 clinical endoscopists, 66 candidates have already completed their training and are able to undertake flexible sigmoidoscopy with a further 46 currently in training. This will total 112 trained and able to perform flexible sigmoidoscopy. The remaining 90 are trained or training in a different modality and may receive further training by their trust in an additional modality, which may also include flexible sigmoidoscopy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/02/2019 17:44:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris