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School Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a statutory requirement for schools to have libraries; and whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that all schools have access to we

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
26 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a statutory requirement for schools to have libraries; and whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that all schools have access to we

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member for Maidenhead to the answer of 28 January 2025 to Question 25150.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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GCSE and IGCSE

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure academic consistency between (a) GCSEs and (b) iGCSEs; and whether she has held discussions with (i) teachers and (ii) parents on perceptions of the differences bet

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Schools: Maidenhead

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school buildings in Maidenhead are classified as requiring urgent repair under her Department’s Condition Data Collection.

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Social Services: Qualifications

22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to provide guidance to education providers on the introduction of the new Technical Occupational Qualification in Social Care from September 2026.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

V-levels

22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish further details on (a) how V Levels will align with (i) T Levels and (ii) A Levels in the post-16 qualification framework and (b) other matters relating to V Levels.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Technical Excellence Colleges

22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce (a) how many Technical Excellence Colleges there will be in each (i) sector and (ii) region and (b) other matters relating to Technical Excellence Colleges.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Digital Technology: Education

4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce standardised digital literacy guidance for schools to teach children critical evaluation skills for assessing the reliability of online information.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Maidenhead

15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether mainstream or special free school projects in the Maidenhead constituency are affected by the review of the free schools pipeline set out in her written ministerial statement of 15 December 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Windsor and Maidenhead

15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her written ministerial statement of 15 December 2025 on Investment in high needs places, how many of the 50,000 new specialist SEND places will be allocated to Windsor and Maidenhead local au

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Childcare: Windsor and Maidenhead

15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the scope and timescale will be for the review of the childcare system; and what estimate she has made of the number of working parents in Windsor and Maidenhead who are unable to access Government-funded

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Pre-school Education: Staff

15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase early years workforce recruitment and retention in Windsor and Maidenhead; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of her proposed funding rate i

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Pre-school Education: Inspections

8 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to strengthen the Ofsted inspection process for early years settings to improve child safety outcomes.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nurseries and Pre-school Education: Sleep

8 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of current guidance on safer sleep practices in nursery settings; and whether she has plans to introduce statutory requirements on safer sleep in early years setting