| Heading: |
School Libraries |
| Question ID: |
1760957 |
| UIN: |
27959 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4938 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paulette Hamilton
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| Asking Member handle: |
PauletteHamilto
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@PauletteHamilto
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on adding the collection of school library data to the school census. |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4125 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Catherine McKinnell
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| Answering Member handle: |
CMcKinnellMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@CMcKinnellMP
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| Answer text: |
School libraries complement public libraries by giving pupils access to a range of books and other kinds of texts, both in and out of school. The national curriculum states that teachers are expected to encourage pupils to develop the habit of reading wid... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |