Question follow-through · 67538
Social Security Benefits: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much she spent on providing (a) translation and (b) interpretation services for benefit claimants in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much she spent on providing (a) translation and (b) interpretation services for benefit claimants in the last year.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The spend in the period of January 2024 – December 2024: a) Translation: £882,118 b) Interpreting: £6,774,336
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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