United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 72399
Local Press: Access
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9 November 2021
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16 November 2021 · Answer
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16 November 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) digitise local newspaper records and (b) improve access to archives.
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9 November 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) digitise local newspaper records and (b) improve access to archives.
Source: Commons
16 November 2021
Answer
Work on improving and maintaining access to local newspaper records and archives is led by colleagues at the British Library and The National Archives respectively, using funding from their core budgets.The British Library collects physical newspapers and...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-11-09/72399
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1367455
- uk · wq-1367455 · source updated 16 November 2021