Freedom of Information Request ID
8598
Date of response
December 2023
1. For the last financial year, what was the total amount spent on translation costs?
2022/23 £153,788
2. Can you provide a breakdown of these costs by language translated.
We cannot provide a breakdown of costs by language as this data is not recorded, however, we can provide a list of languages translated for the last twelve months:
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Arabic (Sudan)
- Arabic (Syria)
- Bengali
- Bengali (Bangladesh)
- British Sign Language (BSL)
- Bulgarian
- Central Kurdish (Sorani)
- Chinese
- Chinese (Cantonese)
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Dari (Afghan Persian, Afghan Farsi)
- Farsi
- French
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Kurdish (Sorani)
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malayalam
- Nepali
- Pashto
- Persian (Dari)
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Punjabi
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Soninke
- Spanish
- Sylheti
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tigrinya
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
3. Do you hire any dedicated translators? If so provide details of how many, total salary cost and for what language.
No.
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