Question follow-through · 67128

Ministry of Justice: Translation Services

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.

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 11 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 15 Jul 2025
Answer: 21 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
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.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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