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Police: Translation Services

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

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)

(2) how much her Department spent on reimbursing police forces for the detention of illegal immigrants in 2008.

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.

Police detention costs

£000

2006-07

7,000

2007-08

8,000

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.