Translation Services

(asked on 8th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on providing translation and interpretation services in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 15th July 2014

The Department's spend on interpreters and translation costs for each financial year since 2010-11 to latest available year 2013-14 are all contained in the following table:

Department of Health Spend (excluding VAT)

Category

Year

Total

Interpretation and Translation

2010-11

£39,284.01

2011-12

£3,653.15

2012-13

£5,831.45

2013-14

£9,076.00

Interpretation and Translation Total

£57,844.61

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