To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time interpreters of the (i) Arabic, (ii) Romanian, (iii) Bulgarian, (iv) Lithuanian, (v) Czech and (vi) Polish language were employed by the police in the Greater London area in (A) 1997 and (B) 2006. (166178)

This information is not collected centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of translators in police stations was in (a) England and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. (166930)

Funding for translation and interpretation services is not separately identified. Decisions on the distribution of resources are matters for the chief officer and the police authority.