Dalai Lama

HC Deb 15 May 1992 vol 207 cc209-10W

Mr. Riddick

To ask the Prime Minister if he will invite the Dalai Lama to visit the United Kingdom.

The Prime Minister

I have no plans to do so but the Dalai Lama is welcome to visit the United Kingdom at any time. I met him during his last visit in December last year.

Mr. John M. Taylor

A steering group of the main agencies of the legal system has been convened by the Nuffield Foundation to promote the use of trained interpreters by the police, the courts and other legal services. The steering group has met four times since January 1991. It will start to address questions of cost at its next meeting on 21 May and will primarily be concerned with the cost to the legal system of using qualified interpreters and the setting up of training courses.