Question follow-through · 91576

Reading: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures the government is taking to develop a culture of reading for pleasure in schools as part of the new curriculum.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
19 Nov 2025
Answer
21 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures the government is taking to develop a culture of reading for pleasure in schools as part of the new curriculum.

  2. 19 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    I refer to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire to the answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 88744.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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