Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Food Standards Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
The following table show how much the Food Standards Agency spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years:
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
Expenditure on translation and interpretation services | £8,000 | £5,000 | £4,000 | Nil | Nil |
Data in the table relates to the Food Standards Agency’s Westminster budget. Expenditure in Wales and Northern Ireland, funded by the respective devolved administrations, has been excluded. Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.