Social Security Benefits: Translation Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of benefits claimants who require translation support during appointments; and at what cost to the public purse.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Department does not hold data on the number of individual claimants who require interpreter support.
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