Oral answer to question provided on Thursday, 9 February 2012 in the House of Lords, by Baroness Rawlings (Conservative).

Charles Dickens: Bicentenary

Answer: I have not actually heard back recently from DCMS on that very interesting suggestion, but I will write to the noble Lord on it.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Thursday, 9 February 2012 by Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench).

Question: My Lords, does the Minister recall that I raised the issue with her a few weeks ago that, in this Diamond Jubilee year, it would be appropriate for a gift of a Dickens novel to be given to children throughout the country? When I subsequently wrote to her and had a brief conversation, she said that she would look at ways of trying to promote private sponsorship of such a project. Has she been able to make any progress in that regard?

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