Claims for translator services

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Under the MPs’ Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses (‘the Scheme’), Office Costs Expenditure (OCE) is provided to meet the costs of renting, equipping and running an MP’s office or offices and surgeries. MPs are entitled to exercise discretion over claims for items that meet the purposes of the OCE budget, provided that the claims meet the general conditions of the Scheme.

For MPs representing Welsh constituencies, the costs of translation between the Welsh and English languages may be met from the Contingency Fund, rather than from the Office Costs Expenditure budget.

We undertook a search of all claims made by MPs since 2010 containing keywords related to translation services. Please find below an annual total of the claims identified.

Further information on these claims should be available on our publication website, by downloading the annualised data and searching the claim description columns.