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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of ensuring that every local authority library in England and Wales can install wifi and provide computer facilities.

The DCMS has not made any assessment of the total financial cost of ensuring that every local authority library in England and Wales can install WiFi and provide computer facilities.

On 18 March we announced, as part of the Budget 2015, that £7.4m is being made available to help all public libraries in England to install and upgrade WiFi. This was a key recommendation from the Independent Library Report for England.