Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2023 to Question 191585 on Swimming Pools: Local Government, which councils operate lidos.

The Government does not directly hold data on individual lidos and Sport England data cannot be used to estimate the number of temporarily closed facilities at a point in the past.

The numbers of lidos in operation in England on local authority owned sites from 2010-2019 are as follows:

• 2010 – 89

• 2011 – 89

• 2012 – 84

• 2013 – 84

• 2014 – 85

• 2015 – 85

• 2016 – 84

• 2017 – 84

• 2018 – 82

• 2019 – 82

As of July 2023, there are 81 lido pools across 63 local authority owned sites in England. The total number of facilities by local authority area is as follows:

• Barnet - 1

• Bedford - 1

• Bradford - 1

• Brighton and Hove - 1

• Buckinghamshire - 3

• Cambridge - 3

• Camden - 5

• Central Bedfordshire - 1

• Cheltenham - 2

• Cherwell - 1

• Cheshire East - 1

• Colchester - 1

• Cornwall - 3

• Dacorum - 1

• Derbyshire Dales - 1

• Dorset - 1

• East Hertfordshire - 2

• East Lindsey - 1

• Eden - 1

• Guildford - 1

• Hackney - 1

• Haringey - 2

• Hillingdon - 2

• Horsham - 1

• Lambeth - 1

• Medway - 1

• Mendip - 2

• Mid Sussex - 1

• New Forest - 1

• North Hertfordshire - 4

• North Kesteven - 1

• North West Leicestershire - 2

• Nuneaton and Bedworth - 1

• Oxford - 1

• Peterborough - 4

• Plymouth - 3

• Richmond upon Thames - 1

• Rushmoor - 1

• South Oxfordshire - 1

• South Somerset - 1

• St Albans - 1

• Stroud - 2

• Teignbridge - 1

• Tonbridge and Malling - 1

• Torbay - 1

• Vale of White Horse - 1

• Wandsworth - 2

• West Berkshire - 2

• West Oxfordshire - 2

• Wiltshire - 1

• Wokingham - 1

• Worthing - 1

• Wychavon - 1

Of these, 10 lidos are temporarily closed (Bedford (1), Cornwall (2), Hillingdon (1), New Forest (1), North Hertfordshire (1), Peterborough (3), Worthing (1)).