Question follow-through · 4720
Swimming Pools: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority swimming pools have closed in each year since 2015.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority swimming pools have closed in each year since 2015.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 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, 308 local au...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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