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Departmental Translation Services

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent by his Department on translation and interpretation services in 2007-08, broken down by language. (205173)

Total spending on translation costs cannot be provided within the disproportionate costs threshold as the production price charged for certain documents may include a translation element that cannot be readily disaggregated. Where translation spending can be identified it amounted to £1,413 in 2007-08, subject to any necessary adjustments following the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit of the 2007-08 HM Treasury Resource Account. This spending represented the Treasury's share of the cost of the provision of interpreters at European Commission working group meetings in Brussels attended by Treasury officials and cannot therefore be broken down by language.