Question follow-through · 89235
Children: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help develop reading for pleasure in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help develop reading for pleasure in schools.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department knows that reading for pleasure is hugely important and brings a range of benefits.That is why we are launching the National Year of Reading 2026, in collaboration with the National Literacy Trust. It aims to address long-term declines in r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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