Children: Swimming

(asked on 11th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) England, (b) Haringey and (c) Hornsey and Wood Green constituency achieve the National Curriculum Physical Education target of performing safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.


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Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 13th September 2017

I am sorry, but the Department does not hold this data. We want all children to leave primary school able to swim, which is why we are currently working across government and with the sector to help ensure that all schools meet their curriculum requirements.

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