Question follow-through · 40619
Department for Transport: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total cost was of providing translation services in her Department in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total cost was of providing translation services in her Department in the last year.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The total spend on Translation Services by DFT in the last financial year (2023/24) is £74,575.16
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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