To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what proportion of his Department's translation and interpreting work is outsourced under framework agreements with commercial providers; and if he will make a statement. (189161)

The Department has a service level agreement with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from whom individual directorates purchase translation services.

Individual directorates make their own arrangements for purchase of interpreting services from external suppliers. Information is not available centrally about such purchases or arrangements with individual suppliers and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.