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Guidance and regulation

• Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
  • Guidance
  • 28 March 2017
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
  • Guidance
  • 28 March 2017
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Community managed libraries: good practice toolkit
  • Guidance
  • 5 June 2018
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Benchmarking Framework for library services
  • Guidance
  • 15 September 2017
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Taking Part Privacy Notice
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 December 2018
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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News and communications

• Redeveloping Dumbarton town centre with £19.9 million funding
  • 17 January 2023
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Case study
• Baroness Sanderson to help develop new public libraries strategy
  • 2 September 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Press release
• Final decision letter on public library provision in Bedford
  • 22 January 2021
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Decision
• 'Minded to' letter on public library provision in Bedford
  • 18 November 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Correspondence
• Final decision letter on public library provision in Southampton following withdrawal of complaint
  • 11 September 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Participation Survey 2021–22 annual report
  • 6 June 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Official statistics
• Economic Estimates: Earnings 2022 and Employment Oct 2021 to Sept 2022 for the DCMS Sectors and Digital Sector
  • 20 April 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Official statistics
• Participation Survey: October to December 2022 publication
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Official statistics
• Ad hoc statistical analysis: 2022/23 Jan to Mar (Quarter 4)
  • 29 March 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Statistical data set
• Participation Survey: ad hoc statistical releases
  • 29 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2021 to 2022 consultation
  • 21 October 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 18 November 2022
• Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2020 to 2021 consultation
  • 6 January 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 24 November 2021
• Consultation on a Technical Variation to the Public Lending Right Scheme
  • 10 June 2021
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 28 April 2021
• Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2019 to 2020 consultation
  • 1 December 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 27 October 2020
• Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2018 to 2019 consultation
  • 3 March 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 29 November 2019

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 20 July 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
  • Corporate report
• British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2020 to 2021
  • 15 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
  • Corporate report
• Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from April 2020 to March 2021
  • 13 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report
• British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020
  • 12 October 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
  • Corporate report
• Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from April 2019 to March 2020
  • 22 July 2020
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities