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<p><ins class="ministerial">For the Public Lending Right (PLR) Scheme year 2019/20,
PLR payments were made to 20,911 registered authors in the United Kingdom. The British
Library, which administers the PLR Scheme on behalf of the department, does not maintain
a record of payments to authors by country of residence in the United Kingdom.</ins></p><p><del
class="ministerial">The Public Lending Right Act 1979 provides a right for authors,
known as the “public lending right”, to receive payments from a central fund for the
loan of their books to the public by local library authorities. The central fund is
provided from government grant-in-aid, and the PLR Scheme is administered for DCMS
by the British Library.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The PLR Scheme sets out
how to calculate the payments that authors can expect to receive from the central
fund and this is calculated, and recommended to the government, by the British Library
using the number of ‘notional loans’ of their books from public libraries in the UK.
The PLR Scheme sets out a maximum payment threshold per author of £6,600 and the minimum
level for authors to receive payments is £1.</del></p><p><strong></strong><br /><br
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