Question follow-through · 119826
Libraries: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have (1) closed and (2) opened in Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have (1) closed and (2) opened in Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2026
Answer published
As the libraries development agency for England, Arts Council England collects and publishes data on library closures and openings in its annual English Public Libraries Location Dataset. The dataset can be found at the following link: https://www.artscou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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