The Welsh Government is spending £20million of public money on translation services from Welsh into English, it has been revealed.

UK Doge revealed the Senedd employs 44 staff in its Welsh Government Translation Service for an annualised salary of £441,563.

According to the Annual Population Survey, there were an estimated 843,500 Welsh speakers in the year ending December 31, 2024.

Contractors for translation services between English and Welsh cost the Senedd approximately £20million, working out to around £24 for every Welsh speaker, reports Guido Fawkes.

The Senedd employs 44 staff in its Welsh Government Translation Service

It comes after the British Government was slammed earlier this year for £8million annual spending on translation services

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has provided translation services across nearly 90 different languages over the past three years, with each call costing an average of £250.

Head of campaigns at the TaxPayers' Alliance, Eliot Keck, branded the spending as "completely inappropriate".

He told GB News: "People come here on an asylum basis such as Ukraine.

"There will be Ukrainian refugees that probably have very limited English speaking capabilities, but the expectation should be that anybody who claims benefits speaks English, and if they don't speak English, they should learn to speak English very, very rapidly."

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan,

Meanwhile, The Arts Council of Wales handed over £9,952 to carry out research on a project called "Decolonising the Welsh Cake".

The academic in charge of the project claimed that it was exploring the history of sugar used to make the sweet treats.

In response to the revelation, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Mims Davies told The Sun: "This is another total waste of money.

A spokesman for Arts Council of Wales said: "We firmly believe it is crucial to support these individuals and organisations as part of our commitment to increase the diversity of work being created, funded and celebrated in Wales."

Reform leader Nigel Farage has previously hit out at the Labour-run Senedd for its anti-racist action plan, lambasting the suggestion to ban dogs in public spaces to increase inclusivity in the countryside.

Speaking on GB News, he said: "They have an anti-racist Wales Action Plan, and some of the suggestions coming in from their contributors are that they're very worried that allotments are dominated by middle-aged white women, and there is now an anti-racist plan for walkers.

"This is just bats, isn’t it?"