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<p>The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that the Honourable
Member has requested. Although we can not provide all the data on spend for the periods
requested we can provide the annual spend for interpreters sourced through the Capita-TI
Contract for Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service as below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar
Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£7,940,128.79</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£15,537,821.29</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Off Contract bookings made by HMCTS are outside of these spend figures. The
number of bookings made off contract has substantially decreased since the start of
2012 with those bookings moving onto the Capita TI contract. This move from off contract
to Capita TI is reflected in the changing year on year contract spend.</p><p> </p><p>Spend
for 2012 is based on an 11 month period as the contract did not go live until 30th
January 2012. Expenditure has also increased in the second year of contract due to
changes made to the contract in May 2013 and an estimated 20% increase on volume.
£15m was saved in year one of the contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In this instance
to provide the requested information on total annual spend and spend by language,
would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.00 or 4 ½ working days.</p><p>
</p><p>In order to provide the information we would be required toobtain a number
of large reports from electronic databases. The relevant data must then be manually
extracted and collated. It would also require comparison against additional financial
data before analysis. We estimate that this process for the spend data would take
approximately 6 working days given the volume of data involved.</p><p> </p><p>Defendants
in criminal cases do not contribute towards the costs of interpreters that are provided
by HMCTS. Charges for HMCTS provided interpreters in civil, family and tribunal cases
are not passed directly to parties, although the costs may be recovered from court
and tribunal fees in the jurisdictions where they apply.</p><p> </p>
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