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Mr. Steinberg
To ask the Minister for the Arts if he will list the expenditure on books for public libraries in the United Kingdom for each year since 1981.
Mr. Renton
Public library statistics collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and supplemented with material from local authorities will shortly be published by my Library and Information Services Council (England). They show expenditure on books as follows:
| £million | |
| 1981–82 | 44·0 |
| 1982–83 | 49·9 |
| 1983–84 | 54·3 |
| 1984–85 | 56·3 |
| 1985–86 | 60·7 |
| 1986–87 | 64·2 |
| 1987–88 | 68·2 |
| 1988–89 | 75·2 |
| 1989–90 | 81·4 |