Question follow-through · 49583
Primary Education: School Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Literacy Trust's findings that one in seven state primary schools do not have a (a) library or (b) dedicated library space.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Literacy Trust's findings that one in seven state primary schools do not have a (a) library or (b) dedicated library space.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Bolton West to the answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 27959.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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