{"value":{"id":1757553,"askingMemberId":5349,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-23T00:00:00","uin":"25603","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support public libraries in Gloucester.","answeringBodyId":217,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1446,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Public libraries are funded by local authorities and each local authority is responsible for assessing the needs of their local communities and designing a library service to meet those needs within available resources.</p><p>I understand that Gloucestershire had 32 local authority-run static libraries as of December 2023, with five of those libraries located in Gloucester itself.</p><p>The government is committed to getting local government back on its feet. The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available £69 billion for local government, which is a 3.5% real terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Public Libraries: Gloucester","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1757553","method":"GET"}]}