Welsh Government Spends More Than £20 Million on Translation Services – Guido Fawkes

Welsh Government Spends More Than £20 Million on Translation Services

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Apart from Ofcom the Welsh government is of course funding translation services into Welsh. The language has 851,700 speakers and zero who don’t also speak English…

UK DOGE can reveal that the Welsh government alone employs 44 staff in its Welsh Government Translation Service for an annualised salary of £441,563. It also pays contractors for translation services between English and Welsh to the tune of £20 million. £24 of taxpayer cash for every Welsh speaker…

For £20,441,563 you could:

• Fill 283,910 potholes.
• Buy 20,441 British Army standard issue SA80 rifles.
• Employ 659 NHS nurses.

There is no reason for translation of website pages and press releases to be so expensive. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…