You can listen here to my lively discussion on Radio 4's Woman's Hour with Baroness Uddin, who didn't seem at all happy.

"Local councils spend at least £25 million on translation services a year, with an estimated figure of £55 million across the UK as a whole. Do these services help women from ethnic minority communities to integrate into British society or do they acts as a determent to learning English - further isolating women and encouraging ghettoisation? Ritula discusses the issues with Bangladeshi human rights lawyer Zia Haider Rahman, and Baroness Uddin."