Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 119288
Libraries: Closures
Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have closed, opened, or relocated in England in each of the last five years.
Answer
Ian MurrayAs the libraries development agency for England, Arts Council England (ACE) collects and publishes data on library closures, openings and relocations in its annual English Public Libraries Location Dataset. The dataset can be found at the following link: ...
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