Question follow-through · 123856
Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information she holds on the number of publicly-owned swimming pools and leisure centres by year from 2015 to 2025/26.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 15 Apr 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information she holds on the number of publicly-owned swimming pools and leisure centres by year from 2015 to 2025/26.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of ensuring public access to swimming and leisure facilities.Sport England, our Arm’s Length Body for grassroots sport, monitors facilities stock through their Active Places dataset. As of March 2026, there are 4,0...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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