Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the public have affordable access to public swimming pools.

The Government is committed to supporting people to engage with sport and physical activity in whichever ways best suit their needs, lifestyles and habits.

Between 2017 and 2021 Sport England is investing £12.16 million in Swim England, the national governing body for the sport, to get more people swimming, to support local clubs and to help talented swimmers to develop.

The setting of pricing and any concessionary arrangements for swimming activity in public facilities is a policy matter for the appropriate Local Authority.