The Department's expenditure on translation and interpretation services from 2003-04 to 2008-09, being the most recent period for which audited figures are available, is as follows:
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Home Office, including UKBA 13,499 14,903 10,419 9,683 9,636 8,301 Identity and Passport Service 3 3 3 6 1260 1,177 Criminal Records Bureau 0 0 0 13 0 0 1The Identity and Passport Service introduced compulsory face-to-face interviews for first time applicants in 2007-08. The first compulsory interview making use of an interpreter took place on 11 May 2007.
The Home Office figures in the table, for the financial years 2004-05 to 2007-08, do not include those for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Office of Criminal Justice and Reform (OCJR), which transferred to Ministry of Justice on 1 April 2007: figures for NOMS and OCJR for 2003-04 could not be deducted from the Home Office total without incurring disproportionate cost.
Data prior to 2003-04 can only be extracted at disproportionate cost.