Translation Services

​​​​Request ​860048234

1) 

How much money was spent on translations, translators and other translation services.

2)

And a breakdown of reasons for translation services and languages

Response

1)

Data from 2020 to 2024 is available via previously published Freedom of Information responses.

Data for 2024 can be accessed here: 

​​Translation service costs in 2024

Data for 2020 – 2023 (which had a breakdown provided by all the individual SPAS) can be found via the below link:

Translation and interpretation services used by GoJ​

Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore has been applied to this data.

The total spend across the Government of Jersey in 2025, to include both translation and interpretation services, is as follows. Total: £98,054.32

2) Please note that information is not held within Treasury and Exchequer to provide the requested breakdown. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies to this information.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​