To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of which local authorities he has used his powers under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 to intervene in relation to a proposed library closure since May 1997; on what dates each such intervention was made; and what the outcome of such intervention was in each case. (269982)

Before my right hon. friend the Secretary of State announced an inquiry into library closures in the Wirral in April 2009, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport had not used his powers under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 to intervene in relation to a proposed library closure since the early 1990s when closures in Derbyshire were investigated.