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Children and Young People: Reading

Asked by Dan CardenLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 4 March 2025UIN 33554

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to increase the number of children and young people reading for pleasure.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Liverpool Walton to the answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29850.

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