Question follow-through · 10847
Leisure Centres: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support local authorities to keep council-owned leisure centres open.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 1 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support local authorities to keep council-owned leisure centres open.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises the challenges local authorities are facing as demand increases for critical services. Resetting the relationship between national and local government and improving how local government is funded in this Parliament, are crucial ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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