§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison officers speak(a) Arabic, (b) Hindi, (c) Urdu, (d) Farsi or Dan and (e) Pashto as a first language; how many officers, and at what grades, are trained to speak each language; and how many translators are available for work in detention camps in each region of England and Wales. [21308]
§ Beverley HughesInformation on the languages spoken by prison officers is not held centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost. Translation arrangements in Immigration Detention Centres are provided primarily by external translators and on occasion by Immigration Service staff.