Translation, interpretation and language services spend - Find a freedom of information request

1) I wish to make an FOI request. Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/2021, 2021/22, 2022/23:

a) The amount spent by the council on translation, interpretation and language services in all areas of council competence, including:

i) Primary and secondary schools;

ii) adult social care services and child social care services;

iii) the provision of any social housing for which it has responsibility;

iv) libraries;

v) recycling and waste collection;

vi) transport;

vii) and other area in which such expenditure has been made.

If, for whatever reason, you are unable to provide the information for a certain facet of your operations please highlight which information cannot be disclosed and continue to disclose the rest of the information.

1. Financial year Translation & interpreting expenditure % of total expenditure:

2020/2021: £60,760.27

2021/2022: £145,511.24

2022/2023: £317, 801.49

The figures do show an incremental increase over the three years as usage of language and interpretation services have increased over time due to a number of external factors, like Covid, Brexit and others. There have also been more people coming into Lincolnshire from abroad through schemes like Homes for Ukraine etc. Languages and Interpretations services, whether through the corporate contract or other suppliers, can be accessed by all individual service areas, based on the requirements of their projects or roles in communicating important information to people who don’t have English as their primary language.