Social Security Benefits: Translation Services

(asked on 14th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much she spent on providing (a) translation and (b) interpretation services for benefit claimants in the last year.


Answered by
Stephen Timms Portrait
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd July 2025

The spend in the period of January 2024 – December 2024:

a) Translation: £882,118

b) Interpreting: £6,774,336

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