Question follow-through · 90336
Public Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support community libraries.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support community libraries.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for assessing the needs of their local communities and designing a library service to meet those needs within available resources, including how community libraries may form a part of that. Where a community library is pa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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