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Departmental Translation Services

Volume 475: debated on Thursday 15 May 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by her Department on translation and interpretation services in 2007-08, broken down by language. (205176)

The Department for Transport and its agencies do not hold the data in an appropriate format to provide the breakdown requested and it could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The information that is available is in the following table.

2007-08

£000

DfT(C)

Translations and interpretations, including DfT share of EU Council Secretariat translations

70.6

DVLA

Translations, mostly into Welsh

111.7

VOSA

Translations and interpretations

72.0

VGA

Translations into Welsh

0.9

MCA

Translations and interpretations

12.2

DSA

Translations, mostly Welsh but also including British Sign Language

126.6

HA

Data not available except at disproportionate cost