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Pupils: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage reading in schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage reading in schools.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    I refer to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire to the answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29850.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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