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To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the closing of the Libraries Taskforce in March 2020 on strategic planning for libraries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the closing of the Libraries Taskforce in March 2020 on strategic planning for libraries.
While the taskforce formally ended on 31 March 2020, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport provided a further year of funding for the team based at Arts Council England to manage the ongoing work funded through it, to convene a core group of library stakeholders, and to assist in the delivery of in upcoming strategic development opportunities. (Arts Council England is the national development agency for public libraries in England.)
Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and to think long-term and strategically as they plan and transform their library services. Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021, together with other strategic planning toolkits previously published by the taskforce, remain relevant guidance documents to assist local authorities in delivering this duty.
In September 2022, the Government appointed Baroness Sanderson of Welton as chairman of a new advisory panel to help develop a new strategy to make sure that public libraries are providing the best possible service for their communities. More detail can be found here. To date she has had numerous meetings with organisations with an interest in public libraries work, and has led two roundtable sessions. The first, on 13 January in Nottinghamshire, focused on the contribution public libraries make to cultural and creative enrichment and the second, on 27 January in Suffolk, discussed their contribution to health and wellbeing. A further seven roundtables will be held between February and May, in libraries across England, each focusing on a specific theme, based on the seven Strategic Outcomes in Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021, plus sessions on governance and innovation.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they intend to provide to the Libraries Taskforce, now that Arts Council England has assumed responsibility for its work, and given that its current funding arrangements will end in March 2020.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they intend to provide to the Libraries Taskforce, now that Arts Council England has assumed responsibility for its work, and given that its current funding arrangements will end in March 2020.
Government funding for the Libraries Taskforce is currently confirmed until March 2020. Arts Council England receives funding for the work streams that it is leading on behalf of the Taskforce.
Decisions about the Taskforce’s future are yet to be made, and as with all government spending, funding beyond this period will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118632, for what reason her Department did not publish the full Libraries Taskforce data set before Christmas 2017 as stated was their aim in that Answer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118632, for what reason her Department did not publish the full Libraries Taskforce data set before Christmas 2017 as stated was their aim in that Answer.
As per the response to Question 118632, we confirmed that it is the intention of the Department to publish the dataset before the end of January 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the full Libraries Taskforce data set before the end of January 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the full Libraries Taskforce data set before the end of January 2018.
It is our intention to publish the dataset before the end of January 2018 and I have written separately to the Honourable member to advise him of our aim to publish before Christmas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the libraries sector on the publication of the Libraries Taskforce dataset.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the libraries sector on the publication of the Libraries Taskforce dataset.
I have discussed with the Chief Executive of the Libraries Taskforce and the Chief Executive of The Library and Information Association (CILIP) release of the Libraries Taskforce dataset. I have also discussed with the President of the Society of Chief Librarians the need for better data and evidence to help local authorities to improve their library service delivery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason his Department has not published the full dataset from the Libraries Taskforce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason his Department has not published the full dataset from the Libraries Taskforce.
The Department expects to publish the full dataset previously collected by the Libraries Taskforce in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the complete dataset from the Libraries Taskforce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the complete dataset from the Libraries Taskforce.
The Department expects to publish the full dataset previously collected by the Libraries Taskforce in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the post on the Libraries Taskforce blog of 8 August 2016, entitled Book dataset first steps, for what reason the library provisions dataset has not yet been published.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the post on the Libraries Taskforce blog of 8 August 2016, entitled Book dataset first steps, for what reason the library provisions dataset has not yet been published.
We will publish data about public libraries in England shortly.