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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to the British Library in the last 10 years.

The British Library received just over £1 billion in exchequer funding for the 10 year period 2010/11 – 2019/20. This is a combination of annual grant-in-aid from DCMS, together with funding received from a number of other government departments and grants from government funded organisations.