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Tuesday 22 October 2024
Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_7568

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7568

Date Request Received: 22/11/2023 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 29/11/2023 00:00:00

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Request Summary: translation costs

Request Category: Private Individuals

 
Question Number 1:
For the last financial year, what was the total amount spent on translation costs?
Can you provide a breakdown of these costs by language translated.
 
Answer To Question 1:
In FY 22-23 we spent a total on £34,297 on interpreting services.
Breakdown is as follows -
Language Total bookings % of usage
Akan 1 0.45%
Arabic - All or Any 11 4.95%
Bengali (Dhaka) 10 4.50%
Bengali (Sylheti) 2 0.90%
Bulgarian 11 4.95%
Chinese (Cantonese) 5 2.25%
Chinese (Mandarin) 2 0.90%
Dutch 1 0.45%
Farsi 5 2.25%
French 1 0.45%
Hindi 2 0.90%
Italian 2 0.90%
Kurdish (Sorani) 5 2.25%
Latvian 2 0.90%
Nepali 15 6.76%
Pashto 2 0.90%
Polish 63 28.38%
Portuguese (Portugal European) 4 1.80%
Romanian 28 12.61%
Russian 26 11.71%
Spanish 4 1.80%
Thai 5 2.25%
Turkish 3 1.35%
Ukrainian 12 5.41%
222 100.00%
 
Question Number 2:
Do you hire any dedicated translators? If so provide details of how many, total salary cost and for what language
 
Answer To Question 2:
None
 
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