Leisure: Facilities
(asked on 26th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
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.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 5th December 2024
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: 23
2020: 16
2021: 15
2022: 16
2023: 11
2024: 2 (as of end of August 2024)