LIBRARY CUTS IN FIGURES

Funding to libraries in 2010

Over £1billion

Funding to libraries in 2021

£720million

Average fall facing local authority budgets after the pandemic

14 %

Number of years in a row libraries have had their budgets slashed

Five

Number of public libraries in 2010 4,482 Number of public libraries in 2021

3,600

Number of remaining libraries made ‘volunteer only’ during the last decade

550

Number of people who are still active borrowers from the UK’s library network 8 million