Question follow-through · 25151
Primary Education: School Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of libraries in primary schools for the development of primary school students.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of libraries in primary schools for the development of primary school students.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
School libraries complement public libraries by giving pupils access to a range of books and other kinds of texts, both in and out of school. The national curriculum states that teachers are expected to encourage pupils to develop the habit of reading wid...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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