Lee Anderson MP: written questions 2025
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Translation ServicesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, 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: DCMS does not hold information to the level of detail requested within its finance system or procurement system.Language service needs and spend are assessed to ensure these services offer good value for money for taxpayers while maintaining high standard...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Translation ServicesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 w
Answer: The amount of expenditure recorded for translation services in the 2023/24 financial year, which runs from 1 April to 31 March, is £1,699.13. For the 2024/25 financial year, the provisional expenditure is £2,703.84.
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Transport: Translation ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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: The Department has spent £212,027.69 on translation services since 2023 (this covers the period from 1st January 2023 to 18 July 2025). The table below outlines the split of costs by calendar year.It should be noted that information is not held at the lev...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Translation ServicesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, 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 we
Answer: The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have awarded two contracts for the total value of £97,848.94 since 2023 on translating documents into languages other than English and other native UK languages.These languages were: French, Korean, Ar...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: Translation ServicesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67134More
Question: 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: 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...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Translation ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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: Spend: YearTotal2023£ 707,777.122024£ 882,118.002025£ 546,323.38 Languages: AlbanianHebrewCroatianAmharicTamilSomaliArabicUrduItalianBahasa IndonesiaNepaliCatalanBengaliFarsi (Persian)SwedishBSL (British Sign Language)SomaliPortuguese (Brazilian)Bulgari...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Translation ServicesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, 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: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero does not record this data in a way in which we can determine what proportion of the spend on translation services was for translating documents into languages other than (a) English and (b) other native UK l...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Translation ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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: The total cost incurred by the department in providing translation services from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, other than English and languages native to the UK, is £16,594.18 and these are broken down as follows:LanguageTotalArabic10,904.45Bangla (Bangl...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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: There has been no expenditure by the Department on translating documents into any languages other than English and other languages native to the United Kingdom since 2023.
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Translation ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 langu
Answer: MHCLG has spent £76,995 on translating documents since 2023. The languages that documents were translated into are: Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Italian, Pashto, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese. Language ser...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Translation ServicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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: The Ministry of Justice has a statutory duty to provide Language Services to enable access to justice for users for whom English is not their first language and those who require visual and tactile services, under the provision of the Equality Act.Languag...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Translation ServicesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 61621.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Translation ServicesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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 l
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) operates across 282 posts worldwide and has a wide range of translation and interpretation requirements across multiple foreign languages. While some translation services are specifically contracted,...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Translation ServicesTreasuryTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67125More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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: HMT cannot identify any costs relating to translating documents into languages other than (a) English and (b) other native UK languages in each year since 2023.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Translation ServicesHome OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67124More
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.
Answer: 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.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArson: PunishmentMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to increase the punishment for arson.
Answer: The crime of arson, where destruction or damage to property is committed by fire, is a horrific crime and should be investigated and punished with the full force of the law. The maximum penalty for arson is life imprisonment. The Government therefore does...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRobin Hood Line: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2025 to Question 60906 on Robin Hood Line: Standards, what proportion of trains on the Robin Hood Line were cancelled in each of the last six periods.
Answer: The table below shows that proportion of trains cancelled in the last six rail reporting periods: Rail PeriodAll Robin Hood line services that were Cancelled2024/25 - P103.78%2024/25 - P111.40%2024/25 - P121.92%2024/25 - P131.55%2025/26 - P012.34%2025/26 ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of trains were cancelled in the last six periods.
Answer: Information on train cancellations is published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and can be found on their data portal.Table 1 presents the proportion of planned services that were either partially or fully cancelled in Great Britain, for each of the ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArson: Crime PreventionHome OfficeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help prevent crimes relating to arson.
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling and preventing arson. We know the serious impact that arson can have on both individuals and the wider community.We are committed to ensuring fire services have the resources they need to do their vital work and to ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSlavery: Supply ChainsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider lowering the annual turnover criteria in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 for which companies have to produce an annual report on steps taken to prevent modern slavery in (a) operation
Answer: The Home Office is currently undertaking a statutory Post-Implementation Review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Transparency in Supply Chains) Regulations to assess whether the £36 million total turnover threshold and the definition of total turnover are ...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorismHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66279More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risk of foreign terror cells operating in the UK.
Answer: As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not comment on the detail of security and intelligence matters.The UK’s counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST provides a comprehensive framework for tackling all forms of terrorism and is kept under constant review ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Political ImpartialityDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure political (a) neutrality and (b) balance in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Ashfield to the answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43267.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on the number of children leaving private schools since July 2024.
Answer: The department does not hold pupil-level data on private school pupils and so does not have information on how many pupils have left private schools.
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: AshfieldDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children resident in Ashfield constituency attend (a) private and (b) independent schools.
Answer: The department publishes data on the number of pupils that attend an independent school on school census day. This data is published in the annual 'Schools, pupils and their characteristics' accredited official statistics. Constituency level data can be f...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRecreation SpacesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure the adequacy of access to green spaces (a) in Ashfield constituency and (b) nationwide.
Answer: Defra does not hold information on the specific steps taken in Ashfield constituency on the adequacy of access to green spaces. However, we have committed that everyone should live within a 15-minute walk of a green or blue space and are working to reduce...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
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