Question follow-through · 61617
Department of Health and Social Care: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department’s expenditure with external suppliers of translation or interpretation services for the 2025 calendar year to date was £7,196, excluding British Sign Language expenditure. In addition, there was no expenditure for languages native to the Un...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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