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224426

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date	02/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to section one of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 2014, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities properly discharge their (a) duties to meet the needs of public library users and (b) other duties under that Act.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	225801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text Section 1 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 places a duty on the Secretary of State to superintend, and promote the improvement of, the public library service provided by local authorities in England, and to secure the proper discharge by local authorities of the functions in relation to libraries conferred on them as library authorities by or under this Act. There are a number of steps being taken to support my Right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State to meet this statutory duty. This includes close monitoring by the DCMS of developments relating to proposed library service changes throughout England and regular engagement by Ministers and Departmental officials with the library sector stakeholders to identify key issues. In addition, Arts Council England, the development agency for libraries, provides support and development to the libraries sector and collaborates and discusses with the relevant stakeholders to identify challenges and opportunities for libraries. answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 09/03/2015 15:42:58 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

223889

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2015 to Question 223186, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of statistics published by Public Libraries News on library closures and libraries transferred to volunteers.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	225619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The DCMS has no plans to make an assessment of the accuracy of statistics published by Public Libraries News on library closures and libraries transferred to volunteers. The summary statistics published by Public Libraries News relate to public libraries throughout the United Kingdom. The remit of the DCMS, however, is to superintend and promote the improvement of libraries in England.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/03/2015 15:02:26 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

177396

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of what proportion of the population visited a public library in each financial year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	223185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The detail requested is not held centrally by this Department, nor is it collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy as part of the annual public library statistics.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 11/02/2015 10:00:34 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant