Prisons: Translation Services
(asked on 11th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the UK prisons’ annual budget is allocated (1) to translation, and (2) to interpretation, services within prisons; and how this budget has changed since 2016.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The table below represents data for translation including interpretation services budget, by year since 2016, for Public Sector Prisons in England and Wales including Young Offender Institutions.
Financial Year | Translation Budget (including interpretation) £ | Total Budget £ | % of Total Budget |
2016/17 | 729,744 | 1,345,226,277 | 0.05 |
2017/18 | 805,895 | 1,418,386,607 | 0.06 |
2018/19 | 1,777,000 | 1,994,086,000 | 0.09 |
2019/20 | 1,756,000 | 2,136,784,000 | 0.08 |
2020/21 | 1,637,000 | 2,218,637,000 | 0.07 |
To note within the tables:
Figures have been extracted from our ledger records.
Both translation and interpretation are held under one budget line in our ledgers; it is not possible to provide separate figures.
Budget data at this granular level is not available for privately managed prisons.
Budget allocations for the translation budget are decided at local prison level according to requirement.