The expenditure on interpretation and languages services: FOI release

Information requested

Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.

All expenditure made by your organisation, in every facet of its operations and purview, on translation, interpretation, and language services.

Please provide the aggregated total spent by your organisation and then, if possible, please provide this broken down by particular function for which the service was carried out.

Response

2020/2021			2021/2022			2022/2023
Service	Function	Amount	Service	Function	Amount	Service	Function	Amount
Interpretation	Policy	£14,442.	Interpretation	Policy	£12,135.00	Interpretation	Policy	£0.00
Translation	Corporate Services	£1,061.47	Translation	Corporate Services	£1,497.89	Translation	Corporate Services	£2,054.42
Total		£15,503.77	Total		£13,632.89	Total		£2,054.42

Policy Interpretation costs were for British Sign Language interpreter services.

Corporate Services costs were for the translation of Accountant in Bankruptcy publications.

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