Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Translation Services
(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department which regulates medicine, medical devices, and blood components for transfusion in the United Kingdom, with responsibility for ensuring medicines meet appropriate standards of safety, quality, and efficacy. The following table shows how much the MHRA has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years:
Year | Translation | Sign language | Total |
2020/21 | £521.86 | £1,554.00 | £2,075.86 |
2021/22 | £9,725.01 | £648.00 | £10,373.01 |
2022/23 | £796.24 | £1,050.00 | £1,846.24 |
2023/24 | - | £3,138.00 | £3,138.00 |
2024/25 | £355.60 | £2,275.20 | £2,630.80 |
Total | £11,398.71 | £8,665.20 | £20,063.91 |