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How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
In 2025 HMT has spent the following amounts against each category requested; (a) £0(b) (i) £0(b)(ii) £0 For our agencies this information is not held centrally to the required level of detailed needed to answer this question on their behalf.
How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The Ministry of Justice has a statutory duty to provide language services to enable access to justice for users for whom English is not their first language and those who require visual and tactile services, under the provisions of the Equality Act.Language service needs and spend are assessed to ensure these services offer good value for money for taxpayers while maintaining high standards of service delivery.The total cost of translation and interpretation services in FY24/25 was £30,208,228.05, excluding British Sign Language and the Welsh language.To support the answer to part b, the below tables show the split per contract and per commissioning body for FY 24/25. These tables include interpretation and translation services only.Lot 1 Contract (Face to Face)Excludes: EnglishCommissioning Body Total FY 24/25 HM Courts and Tribunals Service£25,921,301.19The Probation Service£1,116,839.04Crown Prosecution Service£316,223.31Cafcass£241,885.26HM Prison Service£105,849.83Legal Aid Agency£77,950.08Office of the Public Guardian£3,510.95HM Inspectorate of Prisons£815.90Official Solicitor and Public Trustee£189.34Prisons and Probation Ombudsman£329.20Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority£50.65Total £27,784,944.75Translation & Transcription ContractExcludes Language pairs:English (United Kingdom) > Welsh (United Kingdom)Welsh (United Kingdom) > English (United Kingdom)English (United Kingdom) > English (United Kingdom)Commissioning Body Total FY 24/25 HM Prison Service£1,485,869.95Official Solicitor and Public Trustee£284,540.39The Probation Service£280,647.57Crown Prosecution Service£143,853.76Cafcass£116,820.56HM Courts and Tribunals Service£64,112.15Independent Monitoring Authority£6,057.43HQ£4,012.18Office of the Public Guardian£6,496.96Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority£1,095.89Prisons and Probation Ombudsman£24,431.67HMIPEW£3,479.31Independent Monitoring Board£270.13Legal Aid Agency£11.56Parole Board£1,382.34HM Inspectorate of Prisons£201.45Total £2,423,283.30
How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The Department for Business and Trade does not record the costs for translation and interpretation at this level of detail. We can confirm the Department for Business and Trade spent £58,149.01 on translation services from 1 January 2025 – 27 June 2025. As the department for economic growth, we support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. This figure includes providing translation services and also where the Department required translations or interpreters. DBT employ teams based in priority markets around the world and those teams often use local language skills to help UK businesses access opportunities to export their goods and services globally. Likewise, they will use local language skills to promote the UK to a global audience, and in particular to attract high value investment to the UK. Language service needs and spend are assessed to ensure these services offer good value for money for taxpayers while maintaining high standards of service delivery.
How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The Department’s expenditure with external suppliers of translation or interpretation services for the 2025 calendar year to date was £7,196, excluding British Sign Language expenditure. In addition, there was no expenditure for languages native to the United Kingdom. This was expenditure mainly for providing accessible, easy to understand versions of technical and legal documents for patients and the public, commissioned by different directorates within the Department.
Food and Rural Affairs, how much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The amount of expenditure recorded for translation services in the 2023/24 financial year, which runs from 1 April to 31 March, is £1,699.13.
How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The total cost incurred by the department in providing translation services, other than British Sign Language and languages native to the UK, is £180.Language service needs and spend are assessed to ensure these services offer good value for money for taxpayers while maintaining high standards of service delivery.
How much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.
The Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation (excluding Arm’s Length Bodies) £27,611,694.85 ex VAT in FY24/25 Excluding (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting the Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation (excluding Arm’s Length Bodies) £27,596,855.85 ex VAT in FY24/25. Within Strategic Command, the Permanent Joint Headquarters has an ongoing requirement for interpreters and written translation services to support operational activity overseas and in the UK. Within the contract, over 99% of the value is spent on interpreters who support training and Headquarters activity. Estimated Annual spend against this contract is £30 million.
Whether (a) current and (b) former (i) civil servants and (ii) politicians will be required to give evidence to the grooming gangs inquiry; what steps her Department is taking to ensure accountability of public officials involved in the handling of grooming gang cases; and whether public officials found to have engaged in wrongdoing will be liable to prosecution.
The National Inquiry will utilise existing legislation in the Inquiries Act 2005 to appoint an independent chair who will determine the conduct and procedure of the inquiry. We will announce further details on the inquiry, including the appointment of an independent chair, in due course.
What task forces are funded by each Department.
This information is not held centrally. Individual departments are responsible for any task forces they establish.
Whether her Department can compel local authorities to release safeguarding files on group-based child sexual exploitation.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
If she will ensure that (a) FOI returns, (b) court transcripts, (c) internal memos, (d) inter-agency communications and (e) other evidence submitted to the grooming gang inquiry is published.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
Whether the grooming gang inquiry will include the role of (a) ethnicity, (b) culture and (c) religion in (i) enabling and (ii) concealing group-based child sexual exploitation.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
Whether whistleblowers who were (a) disciplined, (b) dismissed and (c) ignored for raising concerns on grooming gangs will receive (i) an official apology and (ii) compensation.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
How many victims of grooming gangs have applied for compensation; and how many have been rejected.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) deeply sympathises with all victims of sexual crimes and recognises the trauma suffered by victims of these abhorrent offences.CICA cannot provide figures about compensation to victims of grooming gangs. This is because awards of compensation under the statutory Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme are made for the physical and/or mental injuries sustained by the victim rather than the type of offence committed.Each claim for compensation is considered on its own facts and decided using all the information available from the applicant, the police, and other relevant sources.
Whether the grooming gang inquiry will examine (a) internal police complaints, (b) whistleblower evidence and (c) deleted material on grooming gang investigations.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
Whether the grooming gang inquiry will release historic exploitation data back to the 1960s on a rolling basis.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
If she will appoint a chair with no (a) political affiliation and (b) prior conflict to lead the grooming gang inquiry.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
Whether (a) independent whistleblowers, (b) frontline professionals, (c) survivor-led organisations and (d) journalists will be formally included in the grooming gang inquiry.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
If she will commit to implementing all recommendations from the grooming gang inquiry within 12 months.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.
Whether the grooming gang inquiry will publish demographic breakdowns of (a) perpetrators and (b) victims by (i) race, (ii) gender, (iii) nationality and (iv) immigration status.
We will announce further details on the inquiry in due course.