Question follow-through · 73
Public Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities in maintaining access to community library services.
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
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 21 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
- Public Spaces: Young People · 16 Jun 2026
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- Mount Stewart: Finance · 6 Jul 2026
- Youth Services · 14 Jul 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities in maintaining access to community library services.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2026
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 par...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Public Spaces: Young People
16 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to (a) help support young people who gather in public spaces for want of any other dedicated location to do so and (b) reassure those local communities of their safety.
National Lottery: Grants
6 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the National Lottery on the potential merits of uplifting lottery grants that fund improvements to (a) churches and (b) historic buildings.
Mount Stewart: Finance
6 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding to Mountstewart Gardens to help enable Mountstewart to take her place as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Youth Services
14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the provision of youth services in local communities.