§ Mr. Cormackasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans she has to provide new accommodation for the Minister for the Arts; and if she will make a statement.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonAs has already been announced, my noble Friend and his staff will early in 1977
£ million Estimated Libraries Expenditure on Books Financial year by education authorities* by public library authorities by national libraries† by universities Total 1973–74 38 20 0.6 4.6 63.2 1974–75 43 22 0.6 4.2‡ 69.8 1975–76 53 28 1.0 —§ — * Includes: polytechnics, colleges of further education and schools. † Covers British Library and National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. The figures include purchase of foreign books. (This will also apply to universities and public libraries but in the case of the National Libraries by far the greater part of their expenditure goes on foreign books because of copyright deposit of British books.) ‡ Provisional figure. § Figure not yet available for this year. The figures in the last column represent about 45 per cent. of the total turnover by United Kingdom publishers in the home market in the calendar years 1973, 1974 and 1975 respectively. Because of distributors' margins, the different financial years, and differing discounts, it is not possible to make an exact comparison.