§ Mr. Wainwrightasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if, to encourage local authorities to provide swimming and life-saving facilities for school children and other members of the public, he will make a substantial grant to help local authorities to build suitable swimming pools.
§ Mr. CorfieldMy right hon. Friend has no proposals for paying a specific grant to local authorities towards the cost of building swimming pools, but I should point out that net rate-borne expenditure incurred in providing them would attract rate deficiency grant where the authorities qualify. Nearly 150 new pools are either under construction or known to be under consideration by local authorities.