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COUNCIL TRANSLATION BILL BETWEEN £11M AND £20M

TRANSLATING council documents into as many as 120 languages is being offered by town halls across Britain as a result of mass immigration under Labour, figures revealed last night.

The annual cost to taxpayers is at least £10.9million, although estimates put the expenditure even higher.

An unofficial estimate suggests the figure is now nearer £20million a year.

The cash is spent on translating paperwork and providing interpreters with councils in some parts of Britain duplicating literature into languages from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

The figures for language services were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Tories from 387 local councils across Britain. The most frequently translated language was Polish, with 208 councils catering for those speakers, closely followed by Cantonese and Mandarin.

Asian and African languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Arabic and Farsi appear on the list as do dozens of obscure tongues including Bambara, Ewe, Xhosa and various dialects of Mandarin Chinese.

Three councils – Hackney, Newham and Oxfordshire – even cater for Maltese, even though English is an official language on the bilingual island of Malta. Both Gaelic and “Irish” also appear on the list. Figures show that the biggest spending council on translation services is Southwark, south London, which lavished £358,349 on translators during the financial year 2007-08.

Languages catered for in the borough – with one of the most concentrated immigrant populations in the country – include Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Farsi, Hungarian, Kurdish, Polish, Latvian, Somali, Turkish, Vietnamese and Urdu.

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I lived abroad and had to learn to speak the language, nobody offered me any translation what so ever so why should they be given it here.

Tom Linden (NF Press and Publicity)