John Hayes MP: written questions
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Companies House: Translation ServicesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much Companies House has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: Since the 2020/2021 financial year, Companies House spent the following amounts on external translation and interpretation services: 2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/21£18,896£8,925£0£0£0£13,924
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOfsted: Translation ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofsted has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: This is a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver. I have asked him to write to the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings directly and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOfqual: Translation ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofqual has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sir Ian Bauckham, to write to the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings directly and a copy of his reply will be placed in th...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Crime Agency: Translation ServicesHome OfficeTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the National Crime Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The National Crime Agency has spent around the following amounts on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five financial years:2020/21 – £0.9m2021/22 – £0.9m2022/23 – £1.2m2023/24 – £1.4m2024/25 – £1.3mThese figures include both tran...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Translation ServicesTreasuryTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91090More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: HMRC spend on a) Translation and b) Interpretation for the last 5 years is set out below:2020/2021 – a) £0.32m b) £0.50m2021/2022 – a) £0.29m b) £0.53m2022/2023 – a) £0.45m b) £0.63m2023/2024 – a) £0.59m b) £0.59m2024/2025 – a) £0.83m b) £0.30m
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEducation and Skills Funding Agency: Translation ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Education and Skills Funding Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: During the period of 01 January 2020 to 17 November 2025, the Education and Skills Funding Agency spent £0.00 on translation and interpretation services.
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Legal Department: Translation ServicesAttorney GeneralTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91088More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Government Legal Department has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Government Legal Department has not incurred any translation and interpretation services costs in the last five years.
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: LabellingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that food labelling schemes used by UK retailers provide consumers with (a) clear and (b) accurate information on (i) environmental and (ii) animal w
Answer: The Government supports the objective of preventing misleading labelling. The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mislead and must enable consumers to make informed decisions. The rules also ...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCharity Commission: Translation ServicesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Charity Commission has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Charity Commission’s total spend on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years is detailed in the below table: YearSpend (£)2024/2531,219.522023/2435,879.832022/2334,318.512021/2215,016.082020/2110,129.45
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Land Registry: Translation ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much HM Land Registry has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: HM Land Registry (HMLR) has spent £52,336 on translation and interpretation services, including sign-language interpretation, in the previous 5 years as below. The significant majority of the expenditure relates to translating HMLR official documents into...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWales Office: SanitationWales OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities her Department provides in its Whitehall premises.
Answer: The Department's main Whitehall building, Gwydyr House has 4 single sex and 2 non-gendered universal toilets (individual self-contained lockable toilet rooms which contain a toilet, washbasin and hand-drying facilities). This is in addition to 1 wheelchai...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordScotland Office: SanitationScotland OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities his Department provides in its Whitehall premises.
Answer: The Scotland Office leases space in Dover House, London from the Government Property Agency (GPA) and Queen Elizabeth House, Edinburgh from HMRC. GPA and HMRC have responsibility for the provision of bathroom facilities in their buildings.
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Civil ServiceHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the titles of all the events organised by Civil Service networks in her Department since 2017.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Staff networks are collaborative volunteer networks, organised by individual staff themselves, rather than the department. The majority of staff time spent...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Civil ServiceMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the titles of all the events organised by Civil Service networks in his Department since 2017.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally.The Department only holds details of events organised by Ministry of Justice staff networks.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriver and Vehicle Standards Agency: Translation ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table below shows the amount the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency spent on translation and interpretation services in the last five financial years: Financial yearSpend on translation and interpretation service2020-2021£30,081.482021-2022£51,485.04...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Prosecution Service: Translation ServicesAttorney GeneralTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90133More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: There has been a significant increase in demand, as well as costs for translation services post Covid. This has led to a necessary increase in expenditure on translation and interpretation services. We continue to regularly monitor expenditure to ensure b...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFood Standards Agency: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Food Standards Agency has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The following table show how much the Food Standards Agency spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years: 2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25Expenditure on translation and interpretation services£8,000£5,000£4,000NilNil ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSerious Fraud Office: Translation ServicesAttorney GeneralTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89380More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: Almost all the SFO’s cases are connected to other jurisdictions and often include overseas suspects or witnesses and involve significant amounts of evidential material. This means that it needs to make use of translation services in its work. We regularly...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCompetition and Markets Authority: Translation ServicesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Competition and Markets Authority has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The total spend by the CMA on translation and interpretation services for the past five financial years is as follows:Financial Year Net Total Spend by Invoice Payment Date per Financial Year (£s)2020/2110,860.582021/228,677.072022/2310,085.182023/2419,01...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Civil ServiceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will list the titles of all the events organised by Civil Service networks in his Department since 2017.
Answer: The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost to the Department.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Civil ServiceMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the titles of all the events organised by Civil Service networks in his Department since 2023.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not hold a list of all the titles of events organised by Defence Networks and there is no centrally held record of MOD’s internal network events.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Office: SanitationNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities his Department provides in its Whitehall premises.
Answer: The Northern Ireland Office is a tenant within Erskine House in Belfast, and 1 Horse Guards Road London. This building is managed by the Government Property Agency and as a tenant, the Northern Ireland Office does not hold information regarding bathroom f...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: SanitationDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities her Department provides in its Whitehall premises.
Answer: The Department is a customer of the Government Property Agency in its office locations, and does not hold a record of the number of single-sex or gender-neutral bathroom facilities provided there.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: SanitationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) single sex and (b) gender neutral bathroom facilities her Department provides in its Whitehall premises.
Answer: The Department’s main Whitehall building, 2 Marsham Street, has (a) four single sex bathroom facilities on its five floors, consisting of three cubicles that contain a toilet, and a shared station of three washbasins and hand-drying facilities. 2 Marsham ...
Answered 30 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Civil ServiceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will list the titles of all the events organised by Civil Service networks in her Department since 2023.
Answer: We do not manage Civil Service Staff Networks and do not hold any records or information about their events.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
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