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Parliament: Police Forces & BSL / Lipspeakers
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 6:11pm UTC
Cheryl Gillan (Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Wales; Chesham & Amersham, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces have procedures in place to provide British sign language interpreters and lipspeakers on a 24-hour basis for deaf people requiring assistance at police stations; and what steps her Department has taken to facilitate police force compliance with the requirements of the National Agreement on Arrangements for the use of Interpreters, Translators and Language Service Professionals in Investigations and Proceedings within the Criminal Justice System, as revised in 2007. Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour) This information is not currently held centrally. All chief ...