Question follow-through · 94214
Public Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her department is providing to local authorities to help them increase levels of library use ahead of the national year of reading in 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her department is providing to local authorities to help them increase levels of library use ahead of the national year of reading in 2026.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Public libraries are central to the success of the National Year of Reading’s campaign to engage people of all ages with reading. The Reading Agency has been appointed to work with sector partners to deliver and support public library engagement. The Summ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Football: Finance
15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's funding for grassroots football clubs in (a) England, (b) areas of high deprivation and (c) Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes c