Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services
(asked on 11th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much their Department has spent on translating documents into languages other than (a) English and (b) other native UK languages in each year since 2023; and what these languages were.
Spend:
Year | Total |
2023 | £ 707,777.12 |
2024 | £ 882,118.00 |
2025 | £ 546,323.38 |
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Languages:
Albanian | Hebrew | Croatian |
Amharic | Tamil | Somali |
Arabic | Urdu | Italian |
Bahasa Indonesia | Nepali | Catalan |
Bengali | Farsi (Persian) | Swedish |
BSL (British Sign Language) | Somali | Portuguese (Brazilian) |
Bulgarian | Romanian | Lithuanian |
Croatian | Japanese | Serbian |
Czech | Norwegian | Ukrainian |
Danish | Ukrainian | Norwegian |
Dari | Welsh | Estonian |
Dutch | Bulgarian | French |
Estonian | Traditional Chinese | Thai |
Farsi (Persian) | Bengali | Farsi (Persian) |
Finnish | Latvian (Lettish) | Hungarian |
French | French | Romanian |
German | German | German |
Greek | Swedish | Turkish |
Gujarati | Pashtu | Bahasa Indonesia |
Hebrew | Dari | Dari |
Hindi | Vietnamese | Vietnamese |
Hungarian | Hungarian | Russian |
Icelandic | Catalan | Hebrew |
Indian Punjabi | Icelandic | Gujarati |
Italian | Italian | Urdu |
Japanese | Estonian | Indian Punjabi |
Korean | Hindi | Welsh |
Kurdish / Kurdish Sorani | Sinhalese | Korean |
Kurdish Kurmanji | Slovenian | Georgian |
Latvian (Lettish) | Turkish | Danish |
Lithuanian | Portuguese | Portuguese |
Macedonian | Bosnian | Oromo ( Afan) |
Malay (Malaysian) | Kurdish / Kurdish Sorani | Albanian |
Maltese | Amharic | Kazakh |
Norwegian | Dutch | Czech |
Oromo ( Afan) | Bahasa Indonesia | Kinyarwanda |
Pakistani Punjabi | Indian Punjabi | Pakistani Punjabi |
Pashtu | Gujarati | Malay (Malaysian) |
Polish | Polish | Polish |
Portuguese | Lithuanian | Bulgarian |
Portuguese (Brazilian) | Braille (Unified English) | Macedonian |
Romanian | Danish | Greek |
Russian | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Traditional Chinese |
Serbian | Castilian | Nepali |
Simplified Chinese | Simplified Chinese | Bosnian |
Sinhalese | Croatian | Kurdish / Kurdish Sorani |
Slovak | Slovak | Slovak |
Somali | Pakistani Punjabi | Pashtu |
Spanish | Spanish | Spanish |
Swedish | Greek | Latvian (Lettish) |
Tamil | BSL (British Sign Language) | Simplified Chinese |
Thai | Russian | Japanese |
Tigrinya | English (Easy Read) | Slovenian |
Traditional Chinese | Thai | Bengali |
Turkish | Finnish | Finnish |
Ukrainian | Arabic | Arabic |
Urdu | Czech | Dutch |
Vietnamese | Serbian | Sinhalese |
Welsh | Albanian | BSL (British Sign Language) |
| Flemish | Tagalog (Filipino) |
| Galician | Tamil |
| Korean | Tanzanian Swahili |
| Macedonian | Uzbek |
| Malay (Malaysian) |
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| Sindhi |
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| Spanish (LatAm) |
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| Tagalog (Filipino) |
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| Tanzanian Swahili |
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| Tigrinya |
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