Question follow-through · 21170
School Libraries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional (a) funding and (b) support is being provided to help schools improve library facilities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional (a) funding and (b) support is being provided to help schools improve library facilities.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
School libraries complement public libraries in giving pupils access to a range of books and other kinds of texts, both in and out of school.It is for individual schools to decide how best to provide and maintain a library service for their pupils, includ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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