Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many public swimming pools have closed in each constituency since 2010.
Information on the number of swimming pools that have closed and opened in each of the last 5 years is available via Sport England’s Active Places Power database which can be accessed here:https://www.activeplacespower.com/. The information is not held at constituency level but is available at local authority level.
Between 2017 and 2021 Sport England is investing £12.16 million in Swim England to get more people swimming, and £27.5 million through its Strategic Facilities Fund to construct 21 new state of the art leisure facilities which include swimming pools. Government has set up an implementation group to explore the recommendations from the school swimming report published by the Swim Group in 2017, including how we can work with local authorities and private operators to make better use of facilities.