Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 19 January 2011.
Clive Betts
Chair, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Chair, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Chair, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what the outcome was of his Department's consideration of a dual model for teaching swimming as an (a) healthy life skill and (b) competitive sport.
Hugh Robertson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Sport and the Olympics)
holding answer
While it is for the Department for Education to comment on schools based teaching, broadly speaking swimming is taught as a life skill to begin with in schools.
DCMS funding, through Sport England and UK Sport, is then focused on encouraging people of all ages to participate in sport and to support the most talented to excel; this includes swimming.
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