Question follow-through · 25572
Pupils: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage reading for pleasure by (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage reading for pleasure by (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Forest of Dean to the answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 19139.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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