Swimming: West Yorkshire
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people resident in (a) Leeds and (b) West Yorkshire have participated in the scheme for free swimming for people over 60 years.
Ben Bradshaw (Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Exeter, Labour)
The table shows the total number of free swims that have taken place under the free swimming scheme by people aged 60 and over in Leeds and Yorkshire since the programme launched in April. This is not a measure of the total number of individual participants taking part in free swimming, as the Department does not hold these figures.
The Department holds figures by local authority; county and region. Accordingly, figures for West Yorkshire are included within those for Yorkshire as a whole.
| Leeds | Yorkshire | |
| April | 9,219 | 43,149 |
| May | 9,593 | 47,854 |
| June | 11,291 | 54,132 |
| July | 12,277 | 64,759 |
| August | 11,133 | 59,589 |
| September | 10,965 | 58,317 |
| Total (year to date) | 64,478 | 327,800 |