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Home Office: Translation Services

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKHome OfficeTabled Answered 21 July 2025UIN 67124

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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