To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how much her Department spent on reimbursing police forces for translation services in 2008; (263217)

The following table sets out the recharge payments made to police forces in the last two financial years. Final costs for 2008-09 are not yet available.

The figures above include translation costs. We are unable to split out these costs as they are included in the final invoice received from each force.