Tuesday 4 December 2018

PQ: 4th December 2018



Home Office: Interpreters
Home Office written question – answered on 4th December 2018.

Angela Crawley Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Disabilities), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Pensions), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Youth affairs), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Children and Families), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Equalities)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many translators his Department (a) employed directly and (b) procured to work under contract in the last 12 months for which information is available; and what languages those translators spoke.

Victoria Atkins The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Minister for Women
Part (a)
No translators (i.e. people who work with written words) are employed directly.
Part (b)
297 translators were provided in the last 12 months for the following languages:
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Syria)
Bengali
Bengali (Bangladesh)
Bengali (India)
Bulgarian
Chinese (Hong Kong)
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Simplified)
Croatian
Czech
Dari - Farsi (Afghan)
Dutch
English
Estonian
Farsi (Persian)
Flemish
French
French Belgian
Georgian
German
German (Austria)
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Kurdish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
Romanian
Russian
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
Spanish
Spanish Latin America
Swahili
Swedish (Sweden)
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Tigrinya
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh

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