United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 72
Public Libraries: Closures
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13 May 2026
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21 May 2026 · Answer
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21 May 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public libraries have closed in England in the past five years.
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13 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public libraries have closed in England in the past five years.
Source: Commons
21 May 2026
Answer
As the libraries development agency for England, Arts Council England (ACE) collects and publishes data on library closures, openings and relocations in its annual English Public Libraries Location Dataset. The dataset can be found at the following link: ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-13/72
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1904088
- uk · wq-1904088 · source updated 21 May 2026