Written questions

Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Equality

Commons · Question 96312 · Tabled 2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 10 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Louie French

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres are used to help reduce (i) health and (ii) socioeconomic inequalities.

Answer

Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 10 Dec 2025

The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The benefits to individual wellbeing through sport and physical activity are valued ...