Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 13 November 2017.
Kevin Brennan
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Arts and Heritage)
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to reintroduce public library standards.
John Glen
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Government does not intend to reintroduce defined Public Library Service Standards (PLSS), which were were withdrawn along with other government imposed performance targets in a move towards increased local autonomy.
In September 2017, the Libraries Taskforce made available a new sector-led benchmarking framework for library services in England, developed with the Local Government Association, to enable library services to self-assess, develop and improve.
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