Public Libraries
(asked on 15th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of people using public libraries in each of the last five years.
The detail requested is not collected by this Department. However, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) collect annually from the individual library authorities comprehensive information relating to library service provision in Great Britain. The following table outlines the number of physical library visits in each of the last five years in England.
| Visits (million) |
2012/13 | 238.9 |
2013/14 | 223.9 |
2014/15 | 224.6 |
2015/16 | 210.8 |
2016/17 | 204.3 |
The CIPFA library statistics can be accessed from the House library.