Mr. David Leonard:

No. At present, the person who interviews the applicant just writes a note of the questions that are asked and the answers given but it is not word-for-word or everything that is said. In effect, it is a summary. There is scope for disputes to arise, particularly where one only has a written summary in English where an applicant may have given his or her evidence and answers through an interpreter. There is no way at present to check whether the interpretation was accurate but there would be with the recording. It is something I thought I would point out because we hear a lot about the risks of procedural standards being lowered through these measures but there are some concrete improvements.