Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department's second generation contract for the supply of language services will require interpreters to be registered with the National Registers of Communications Professionals Working with Deaf and Deafblind People or the National Register of Public Service Interpreters.

This Government is committed to providing language service professionals who meet the needs of those requiring support in the justice system, including those working with deaf and deafblind people.

Future provision of the service is currently being explored.