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Swimming Pools

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many public swimming pools have closed in (a) the Greater London area and (b) England since 1997. (210521)

Sport England has advised that information on local authority pool openings and closures across Greater London and England was not collected centrally prior to 2004, when the Active Places database of sports facilities across England was established. The most recent information from Sport England (November 2007) indicates the number of pools (not sites) opened and closed in each year since 2004.

Opened

Closed

Greater London

2004

6

0

2005

4

6

2006

7

0

2007

6

3

England

2004

17

5

2005

18

32

2006

20

23

2007

19

9