Mentions:
1: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) present a petition on behalf of two residents of the constituency of Loughborough on the need for annual swimming - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) What assessment she has made of the impact of the swimming pool support fund on local pools and leisure - Speech Link
2: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) What assessment she has made of the impact of the swimming pool support fund on local pools and leisure - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) 2023-24, the Government have awarded more than £60 million to address cost pressures facing public swimming - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) for the considerable sum of funding—£382,000 —that has been made available to Redditch to level up swimming - Speech Link
5: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Aqua Vale swimming and fitness centre in Aylesbury has a prime location in the heart of town, but I am - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) failure to realise that we are the generation that lived in information scarcity and our children are swimming - Speech Link
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral evidence given by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Rural Growth) to the Environmental Audit Committee on 15 May 2024, which designated bathing water location was tested three times more than was statutorily necessary.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
There are currently 451 designated bathing waters in England and the Environment Agency takes over 7,000 bathing water samples each year. The Bathing Water Regulations 2013 require designated bathing waters to be sampled at least 5 times per bathing season. This year, all bathing waters in England will be sampled more than this statutory minimum. The table below summarises the number of sites at each planned sampling frequency for the 2024 bathing season.
Number of planned samples per season | Number of sites |
20 | 236 |
15 | 109 |
10 | 106 |
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled Record number of new bathing sites get the go ahead, published on 13 May 2024, whether the new wild swimming spots will be safe to swim in 365 days a year.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The current Bathing Water Regulations 2013 aim to drive improvement to water quality at sites where people swim, by putting in place duties on the Environment Agency, local authorities, sewerage undertakers and others to investigate pollution incidents at bathing water sites so that remedial measures can be put in place, and by encouraging collaboration around these issues.
This year, Defra will consult on reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013. The proposed changes will drive work to improve bathing water quality, enhance monitoring, and enable more flexibility around the dates of the bathing water monitoring season – the current bathing water monitoring offer will be maintained as a minimum. These changes will allow us to increase monitoring outside of the bathing water season in the future, to better embed water quality improvements within processes and to prevent automatic de-designation of existing bathing water sites.
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: , 181 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00847-x 28 Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Swimming
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024Found: and officials • Referee • Riding instructor • Sports coach • Sports development officer • Swimming
Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) They might use a swimming pool. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Torrance, David (SNP - Kirkcaldy) scouts, and he often spends entire days running in the fields, darting in and out of the bushes and swimming - Speech Link
May. 21 2024
Source Page: RG2 0RP, Thames Water Utilities Appeal (Reading) Conditions attached to a permit - EPR/MP3338LU/V004Found: in the byelaws from being used for boating (whether with mechanically propelled boats or otherwise), swimming