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Department for Business and Trade: Translation Services

Commons · Question 67134 · Tabled 11 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, 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.

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 21 Jul 2025

The Department for Business and Trade does not routinely record the costs for translation of documents into other languages separately from other translation and interpretation costs. We can confirm the Department for Business and Trade spent £14,085.54 o...