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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2025, what steps she is taking to ensure that the funding for libraries in schools are targeted at schools with the most acute need.

£12.5 million from the Dormant Assets Scheme has been allocated to ensure every primary school has a library space by the end of this Parliament. This is part of the government’s Every Child Can ambition announced in the National Youth Strategy. The National Lottery Community Fund is working to develop more of the programme details, including which schools will receive funding.