"Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English, " he said.

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"We identified problems with access to interpreting services for people who do not speak English as their first language and for those who are deaf, " Ms Drown said.

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