Question follow-through · 89380
Serious Fraud Office: Translation Services
To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on translation and interpretation services in each of the last five years.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
Almost all the SFO’s cases are connected to other jurisdictions and often include overseas suspects or witnesses and involve significant amounts of evidential material. This means that it needs to make use of translation services in its work. We regularly...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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