Question follow-through · 8767
Public Libraries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help local authorities fund public libraries.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 25 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help local authorities fund public libraries.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Oct 2024
Answer published
Public libraries are funded by local authorities and each local authority is responsible for assessing the needs of their local communities and designing a library service to meet those needs within available resources.I will work with my colleagues in th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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