Public Libraries: Yorkshire and the Humber
(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries there were in the Yorkshire and the Humber region in (a) 2010 and (b) 2020.
The Libraries Taskforce published the public libraries in England extended dataset on 11 January 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-libraries-in-england-basic-dataset#history This provides details of static libraries (statutory and non-statutory) in England as at 1 April 2010 and 1 July 2016. Data on mobile libraries was inconsistent and incomplete, and therefore was not included in this dataset.
Details of the number of libraries as at 31 December 2019 has been collected by Arts Council England and will be published shortly.
The following table lists the number of static libraries in each local authority within the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Local Authority | 1 April 2010 | 1 July 2016 |
Barnsley | 17 | 15 |
Bradford | 35 | 33 |
Calderdale | 22 | 22 |
Doncaster | 26 | 25 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 23 | 23 |
Kingston upon Hull | 14 | 14 |
Kirklees | 26 | 24 |
Leeds | 50 | 35 |
North East Lincolnshire | 10 | 8 |
North Lincolnshire | 15 | 15 |
North Yorkshire | 42 | 42 |
Rotherham | 15 | 15 |
Sheffield | 29 | 28 |
Wakefield | 27 | 19 |
York | 15 | 15 |
Total | 366 | 333 |