Teh One Who Knocks
01-19-2017, 01:05 PM
By Miles Goslett - Heat Street
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Courts in England and Wales are spending an average of about £50,000 of public money each working day on interpreters for non-English speakers, new figures reveal.
Details released to Heat Street under Freedom of Information laws by the Ministry of Justice confirm that the amount of taxpayers’ money spent annually on court translators rose during the last two financial years from £12.75 million to £13.4 million. The average figure of £50,000 is based on there being about 260 working days each year.
Translators for Polish speakers were the most commonly used, with more than 20,000 hired for individual cases during each year. These were followed by Romanian speakers (more than 12,000 in each year) and Lithuanian speakers.
The MoJ stated that the public paid for a total of more than 212,000 individual translating jobs between April 2014 and April 2016.
The figures from the FoI response for 2014/15 are below:
http://i.imgur.com/CuuV0IF.png
These are the figures for the year 2015/16:
http://i.imgur.com/OJosHGH.png
Last year the Daily Mirror published a list of native languages spoken by those who required the use of a translator during court proceedings in England and Wales for which state-funded translators were paid.
It runs as follows:
Albanian (all variants), Arabic (all variants), Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, Dari (all variant), Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French (all variants), German (all variants), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish (Sorani), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Pashto (all variants), Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi (all variants), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese Special Services (5) British sign language, Lipspeak (English), Sign supported (English), Deafblind Hands on/Hands under, and Palantypists Rare Languages (176) Acholi, Afghan Punjabi, Afrikaans, Akan, Algerian, Amharic, Aramaic, Ashanti, Azerbaijani (North), Azerbaijani (Southern), Azeri, Bagang, Bahasa Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysian, Bajuni, Bako, Balinese, Baluchi, Bamanankan, Bambara, Banjuni, Belarusian, Bemba Zambia, Bilen, Bosnian, Brahui, Bravanese, Burmese, Cameroonian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chaldean – Neo Aramaic, Chechen, Chichewa, Chittagonian, Creole , Dafur, Dagbani, Dakota, Danish, Dazaga, Dholuo, Dinka – Southern Central, Dioula, Edo, Efik, Emeric (Nigerian), English (Pidgin), Ewe, Fataluku, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Fula, Fur, Ga, Georgian, Gherghel, Gorani, Guyenese, Hagan, Haitian, Hakka, Hausa, Hazara, Hebrew, Hindko, Hokkien, Ibibio, Icelandic, Idoma, Igbo, Ika Agbor, Ilocano, Indonesian, Ishan, Ishan (Nigeria), Jamaican Patois, Javanese, Jula, Kachi, Kambaata, Karen (Thailand), Kashmiri, Katchi (Maman), Kazakh, Khmer, Kibajuni, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kinyamulenge, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kiswahili, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Bahdini), Kutchi, Kyrghiz, Liberian, Lingala, Luganda, Luo,Macedonian, Malawian,Malawian Chichewa, Malay, Malayalam, Maldivian, Maltese, Mandingo, Mandinka, Maninka, Mauritian Creole, Mende, Mirpuri, Mongolian, Nambian, Ndebele – Northern, Ndebele – Southern, Nepalese, Nigerian Pidgin, Norwegian, Oromo (Central), Oshiwambo, Other, Pahari, Patois, Persian, Potwari, Rohingya, Rohingyan, Roma, Romany, Runyankole, Rutoro, Serb Croatian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Somalia Banadir, Sondi, Soninke, Susu, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Sylheti, Tagalog, Taishan, Taiwanese, Tajiki, Tama, Telugu, Temne, Tetum,Tibetan, Tigre, Tigrinya, Timorise, Turkmen, Twi, Uighur, Urhobo, Urohobo, Uzbek (Northern), Welsh, Wolof, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zaghawan, Zazaki, Zezuru, Zulu
http://i.imgur.com/4e8mj8Ah.jpg
Courts in England and Wales are spending an average of about £50,000 of public money each working day on interpreters for non-English speakers, new figures reveal.
Details released to Heat Street under Freedom of Information laws by the Ministry of Justice confirm that the amount of taxpayers’ money spent annually on court translators rose during the last two financial years from £12.75 million to £13.4 million. The average figure of £50,000 is based on there being about 260 working days each year.
Translators for Polish speakers were the most commonly used, with more than 20,000 hired for individual cases during each year. These were followed by Romanian speakers (more than 12,000 in each year) and Lithuanian speakers.
The MoJ stated that the public paid for a total of more than 212,000 individual translating jobs between April 2014 and April 2016.
The figures from the FoI response for 2014/15 are below:
http://i.imgur.com/CuuV0IF.png
These are the figures for the year 2015/16:
http://i.imgur.com/OJosHGH.png
Last year the Daily Mirror published a list of native languages spoken by those who required the use of a translator during court proceedings in England and Wales for which state-funded translators were paid.
It runs as follows:
Albanian (all variants), Arabic (all variants), Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, Dari (all variant), Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French (all variants), German (all variants), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish (Sorani), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Pashto (all variants), Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi (all variants), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese Special Services (5) British sign language, Lipspeak (English), Sign supported (English), Deafblind Hands on/Hands under, and Palantypists Rare Languages (176) Acholi, Afghan Punjabi, Afrikaans, Akan, Algerian, Amharic, Aramaic, Ashanti, Azerbaijani (North), Azerbaijani (Southern), Azeri, Bagang, Bahasa Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysian, Bajuni, Bako, Balinese, Baluchi, Bamanankan, Bambara, Banjuni, Belarusian, Bemba Zambia, Bilen, Bosnian, Brahui, Bravanese, Burmese, Cameroonian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chaldean – Neo Aramaic, Chechen, Chichewa, Chittagonian, Creole , Dafur, Dagbani, Dakota, Danish, Dazaga, Dholuo, Dinka – Southern Central, Dioula, Edo, Efik, Emeric (Nigerian), English (Pidgin), Ewe, Fataluku, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Fula, Fur, Ga, Georgian, Gherghel, Gorani, Guyenese, Hagan, Haitian, Hakka, Hausa, Hazara, Hebrew, Hindko, Hokkien, Ibibio, Icelandic, Idoma, Igbo, Ika Agbor, Ilocano, Indonesian, Ishan, Ishan (Nigeria), Jamaican Patois, Javanese, Jula, Kachi, Kambaata, Karen (Thailand), Kashmiri, Katchi (Maman), Kazakh, Khmer, Kibajuni, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kinyamulenge, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kiswahili, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Bahdini), Kutchi, Kyrghiz, Liberian, Lingala, Luganda, Luo,Macedonian, Malawian,Malawian Chichewa, Malay, Malayalam, Maldivian, Maltese, Mandingo, Mandinka, Maninka, Mauritian Creole, Mende, Mirpuri, Mongolian, Nambian, Ndebele – Northern, Ndebele – Southern, Nepalese, Nigerian Pidgin, Norwegian, Oromo (Central), Oshiwambo, Other, Pahari, Patois, Persian, Potwari, Rohingya, Rohingyan, Roma, Romany, Runyankole, Rutoro, Serb Croatian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Somalia Banadir, Sondi, Soninke, Susu, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Sylheti, Tagalog, Taishan, Taiwanese, Tajiki, Tama, Telugu, Temne, Tetum,Tibetan, Tigre, Tigrinya, Timorise, Turkmen, Twi, Uighur, Urhobo, Urohobo, Uzbek (Northern), Welsh, Wolof, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zaghawan, Zazaki, Zezuru, Zulu