Question follow-through · 16298

Leisure: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority owned leisure facilities have been sold in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled: 26 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 28 Nov 2024
Answer: 5 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority owned leisure facilities have been sold in each of the last five years.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2024
Answer published
Since 2019, 89 Health and Fitness facilities owned by Local Authorities have closed. Over the same period, 83 Health and Fitness facilities have opened.The breakdown for closures per year is as follows:2019: 232020: 162021: 152022: 162023: 112024: 2 (as o...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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