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Departmental Translation Services

Volume 476: debated on Wednesday 21 May 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much was spent by his Department on translation and interpretation services in 2007-08, broken down by language. (205180)

The Department for International Development (DFID) spent £146,090 on translation and interpretation services during 2007-08. The following table details the overall costs broken down by language.

Translation and interpretation services

Languages

Cost (£)

Albanian

11,875

Arabic

2,812

Armenian

1,227

Bangla

341

Cambodian

25

English

21,614

French

30,605

Italian

231

Kinyarwand

559

Nepal

130

Portuguese

10,239

Romanian

210

Russian

2,977

Sign Language

17,262

Spanish

29,816

Urdu

11,648

Vietnamese

4,521

Total

146,090

Other translation or interpretational costs may have been incurred but cannot be separately identified; for example, where translation is a small component within a larger project.