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Freedom of Information request 209-2022

Response published: 8 December 2023

FOI Request

I am writing to obtain information about your Trust’s funding on interpreters and the translation services they provide under the Freedom of Information Act. To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting: • How much the trust spent on foreign interpreters in each of the following financial years: 2019-20; 2020-21 and 2021-22. • A breakdown of the languages that an interpreter was needed to translate.

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 209-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below:
How much the trust spent on interpreters in each of the following financial years: 2019-20; 2020-21 and 2021-22. The figures provided are the total for both Translation and Interpretation:
2019-20: £70,866
2020-21: £60,828
2021-22: £116,865
A breakdown of the top languages that an Interpreter was needed to translate:
Polish Czech Arabic Romanian Slovak Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust