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Tuesday 15 July 2025
Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_8688

Internal Reference Number: FOI_8688

Date Request Received: 03/06/2025 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 20/06/2025 00:00:00

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Request Summary: translation and interpretation costs

Request Category: Media

 
Question Number 1:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to request the following information from your organisation:

How much was spent on translation and interpretation costs over the last five financial years (2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)?

Please could this data be broken down into a total sum over the five years and also broken down by each financial year.
 
Answer To Question 1:
20-21 £17k
21-22 £15k
22-23 £34k
23-24 £23k
24-25 £46k
 
Question Number 2:
Please can a separate list of the top five languages incurring the highest cost in the financial year 2024/25 also be included, with how much was spent on each language.
 
Answer To Question 2:
Dari
BSL - British Sign Language
Pashto
Portuguese
Polish

The Trust does not hold the breakdown of costs of each language. This is only held by the 3rd Party.
 
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