BSCC-FOI-1823-HD: expenditure on translation, interpretation, and language services
Updated 10 January 2024
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Tony Eastaugh CBE
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
08 January 2024
To: [redacted]
Our ref: BSCC-FOI-1823-HD
Letter by email
Dear [redacted]
I write in response to your email received by our office on 28 December 2023 in which you asked:
Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.
All expenditure made by your organisation, in every facet of its operations and purview, on translation, interpretation, and language services.
Please provide the aggregated total spent by your organisation and then, if possible, please provide this broken down by particular function for which the service was carried out.
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
There has been no expenditure by my office for the services you referenced during the specified financial years, and we therefore have no information to disclose.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference BSCC-FOI-1823-HD. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Mark Greenhorn
14th Floor
Lunar House Building
40 Wellesley Road,
Croydon
CR9 2BY
Email: sciencesupportfoi@homeoffice.gov.uk
As part of any internal review, our handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Kind regards,
Tony Eastaugh CBE
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
Email: enquiries@obscc.org.uk