Department for Education: Translation Services
(asked on 11th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.
The total cost incurred by the department in providing translation services from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, other than English and languages native to the UK, is £16,594.18 and these are broken down as follows:
Language | Total |
Arabic | 10,904.45 |
Bangla (Bangladesh) | 536.45 |
Gujarati (India) | 536.45 |
Lithuanian | 447.74 |
Pashto (Afghanistan) | 536.45 |
Polish | 447.74 |
Punjabi | 536.45 |
Romanian | 447.74 |
Somali | 680.07 |
Ukrainian | 447.74 |
Urdu | 536.45 |
Yiddish | 536.45 |
| 16,594.18 |
The total cost incurred by the department in providing translation services for the period 01/04/2024 to 25/03/2025 is £25,286.79. This is split between £24,820.60 for British sign language and braille support and £318.57 for other translation services.