Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 13 February 2013, Official Report, column 736W, on NHS: translation services, if he will institute a system to record centrally the cost of interpreters and translators in hospitals in England. [156161]

Norman Lamb, Minister of State for Care and Support: There is no plan to put in place a system to record centrally the cost of interpreters and translators in hospitals. Public authorities have a legal duty to provide information and services for their local populations, including those who do not speak English.

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