Question follow-through · 4300
Children: Swimming
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support more children to learn to swim.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support more children to learn to swim.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill. This is why swimming and water safety are compulsory elements of the PE National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 and 2, including teaching on how to perform safe self rescue in different water-based situations. ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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