Question follow-through · 40627
Department for Education: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost was of providing translation services in her Department in the last year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- 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 Education, 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 cost incurred by the department in providing translation services for the period 01/04/2024 to 25/03/2025 is £25,286.79. This is split between £24,820.60 for British sign language and braille support and £318.57 for other translation services.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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