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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1136199/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) launched new guidance to staff in November 2018 to help ensure it meets its legal duty (under the Equality Act 2010) to provide reasonable adjustments for users with disabilities. This empowers staff to remove barriers and support users with disabilities.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>HMCTS will also shortly issue a new reasonable adjustment learning product for staff so that they have the capability and confidence to support court and tribunal users with disabilities. This learning will be mandatory for all HMCTS operational staff to complete.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>HMCTS also has a page on <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service/about/equality-and-diversity\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOV.UK<\/strong><\/a> setting out the support it provides, pointing users to who they can contact to get the right support, and explaining how individual needs will be discussed with the judge hearing a case.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>HMCTS is committed to ensuring access to courts and tribunals is maintained for all staff and users.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1135970/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Ministry does not hold central data for all jurisdictions and hearing types in which interpreters are used and to manually review each case would incur disproportionate costs. However, central information does exist on the number of trials listed in the criminal courts which were adjourned as a result of interpreters being unavailable. This data is published in Criminal Court Statistics.<\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics<\/a><\/p><p>A table detailing such occurrences over the last three years for which data is available is copied below.<\/p><p> <\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td colspan=\"3\"><p>Crown Courts<\/p><\/td><td colspan=\"3\"><p>Magistrates\u2019 Courts<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Year<\/p><\/td><td><p>Number of trials<\/p><\/td><td><p>Adjourned due to interpreter availability<\/p><\/td><td><p>% of trials adjourned due to interpreter availability<\/p><\/td><td><p>Number of trials<\/p><\/td><td><p>Adjourned due to interpreter availability<\/p><\/td><td><p>% of trials adjourned due to interpreter availability<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2016<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>37,339<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>30<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.1%<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>149,423<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>495<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.3%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2017<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>34,579<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>29<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.1%<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>136,962<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>423<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.3%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2018<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>29,583<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>17<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.1%<\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>123,023<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>495<\/p><\/td><td><p>0.4%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p> <\/p><p>As the associated costs for HMCTS of rescheduling trial cases will vary, depending on whether other work was able to be heard in that courtroom, this information is not held centrally.<\/p><p>The department continues to monitor its language service contracts closely and work with the suppliers to drive improvements and reduce the cost on the taxpayer. The Language Service contract has achieved a fulfilment rate of 97% over the first quarter of 2019.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of court cases rescheduled due to problems with interpreting or translating services and (b) additional cost incurred from that rescheduling in each of the last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1135971/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The table below shows the number of sitting days in courts in England that were presided over by a recorder in each of the last 18 months to December 2018. These figures cover sitting days by recorders in County, Family and Crown Courts.<\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month<\/p><\/td><td><p>Recorder Sitting Days<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Jul-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,645<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Aug-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,886<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Sep-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>3,158<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Oct-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,774<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Nov-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,576<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Dec-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,901<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Jan-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,755<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Feb-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,437<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Mar-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,462<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Apr-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,763<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>May-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,967<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,153<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,138<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,059<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,982<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,963<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,727<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,051<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p> <\/p><p>We are only able to provide information to December 2018 as this aligns with the latest information on court sitting days which is published on Gov.uk and is available here. <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019<\/a>. It is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Table 5.2 a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge)<\/p><p>The data source for these figures are a number of operational systems and as such are liable to change and may not reflect previously published statistics.<\/p><p>Last year Crown Court trial waiting times were at their lowest since 2014, with this year\u2019s allocation of sitting days reflecting this.<\/p>"}
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