29 June, 2009
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London -- Westminster Council spent more than £200,000 of taxpayers' money translating pamphlets into 10 different foreign languages last year.
Town Hall officers ensured documents were translated into Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Portuguese, Kurdish, Albanian, Polish, Farsi, Somali and French - at a cost of £230,000 to the public purse.
The revelation comes despite a call in 2007 by Hazel Blears, then the communities secretary, for councils to think twice before translating documents. She said the money should be spent teaching immigrants English to aid immigration.
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Labels: EFL, teaching English, TEFL
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