Question follow-through · 96168
School Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools without libraries in England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools without libraries in England.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton to the answer of 22 October 2025 to question 81502.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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