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Court Proceedings: Written Transcripts

Lord Elton Excerpts
Tuesday 28th June 2016

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Faulks Portrait Lord Faulks
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An accurate transcript involves expense, and expense is incurred by those who provide an accurate—and it must be absolutely accurate—transcript. A transcript is available, but it is not automatically available. It requires transcription from a recording. Depending on how quickly you need it and how much you need, it will be more expensive.

Lord Elton Portrait Lord Elton (Con)
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My Lords, does not a hard-copy record of all proceedings have to reside in the court? If that is the case, why is it so expensive to print another copy, as is done with Hansard?

Lord Faulks Portrait Lord Faulks
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There is not, in fact, a printed record of proceedings. There is a recording, which is then transcribed. It is the cost of transcription that we are concerned with.