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Guidance and regulation

  1. Libraries as a statutory service
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  2. Libraries and makerspaces
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  3. Taking Part Privacy Notice
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  4. Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  5. Department for Culture, Media and Sport Resource Accounts 2007 to 2008
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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News and communications

Correspondence

'Minded to' letter on public library provision in Lambeth

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

  1. 'Minded to' letter on public library provision in Swindon
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
  2. New £250 million Culture Investment Fund launched
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, Historic England, and National Lottery Heritage Fund
    • Press release
  3. Final decision letter on public library provision in Barnet
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
  4. Final decision letter on public library provision in Lancashire
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Ad-hoc statistical analysis: 2020/21 Quarter 1
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  2. DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2019: Employment
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for National Statistics
    • Official statistics
  3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – Statistics at DCMS
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistics
  4. Ad hoc statistical analysis: 2019/20 Quarter 4
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  5. Total Income of DCMS-funded cultural organisations 2018/19
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2018 to 2019 consultation
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 29 November 2019
  2. Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2017 to 2018 consultation
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 29 October 2018
  3. Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 24 May 2018
  4. Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2016 to 2017 consultation
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 24 November 2017
  5. Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from January 2017 to March 2018
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Twenty-sixth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  2. Libraries Taskforce: six-monthly progress report (April to September 2019)
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Arts Council England
    • Corporate report
  3. Twenty-fifth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  4. Twenty-fourth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  5. British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
    • Corporate report
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Organisations