Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 90336

Public Libraries

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Stuart Anderson

ConservativeSouth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support community libraries.

Answer

Ian Murray
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 pa...

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