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FOI Request

Disclosure ID

FOI/02459

Request Date

May 22, 2018

Subject

Translator Costs

Description

1. How much money was spent on translators in the financial years 2017/18, 2016/17, and 2015/16 broken down by year?
2. How many times were translators required over the three years, broken down by year?
3. What languages were the translators needed for?
4. How many times were translators needed for each language?

Response

1. 2015 – £58,649
   2016 – £96,496
   2017 – £13,313
2. We do not collate this information in a manner that is easily accessible. The information is not held centrally but individually by divisions and departments and would require a manual trawl through paper records which would constitute disproportionate effort. Therefore this information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).
3. Please see attached sheet for required languages
4. We do not collate this information in a manner that is easily accessible. The information is not held centrally but individually by divisions and departments and would require a manual trawl through paper records which would constitute disproportionate effort. Therefore this information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1))

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