The prison and probation service spent £3.29 million on interpreters and translators last year, up from £1.99 million in 2022. Write your own translation jokes…
New figures dug out by Tory MP John Hayes show the bill for spoken interpreters in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service climbed every year, from £903,265 in 2022 to £1.33 million in 2025. Translation and transcription costs rose even faster, from £1.08 million to £1.96 million – an 81% jump. Over four years the total comes to £11.1 million of taxpayer cash…
For comparison, Hayes also asked the Disclosure and Barring Service the same question. It spent £89,916 on interpreters across all four years combined. HMPPS gets through that in about ten days…
Robert Jenrick told a rally on Monday:
“They say Chancellors are either undertakers or bookies. This one is an ostrich – and when the Chancellor buries his head in the sand, the rest of us, we’re left staring at his you know what.”