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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support local competitive swimming clubs.

Sport England is the body responsible for supporting and investing in grassroots and community sport.

Between 2017 and 2021 Sport England is investing £12.16 million in Swim England, the national governing body for the sport, to get more people swimming, to support local clubs and to help talented swimmers to develop.

This investment includes £4.6 million to support talented athletes on Swim England's swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo programmes.