Public Libraries: Social Mobility

(asked on 3rd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the importance of libraries to social mobility.


Answered by
John Glen Portrait
John Glen
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

Libraries play an important role in giving everyone opportunities to improve their life chances and achieve their full potential.

In recognition of this, the Government funds the Libraries Taskforce to deliver its 2016 strategy Libraries Deliver. DCMS is also investing £3.9 million in the Libraries: Opportunities for Everyone fund to support innovative library service activity in 2017/18 to benefit disadvantaged people and places in England.

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