Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 29 November 2010.
As I have said, libraries are a statutory service, so local authorities must provide them, and providing that they have a far-seeing and imaginative plan, they can do so. There are many excellent local library services up and down the country, and the future libraries programme is making sure that that knowledge is widely disseminated.