§ 57. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to ensure that in schools under his authority pupils are not debarred from instruction in swimming because for economic or other reasons their particular school has no swimming pool, and also to ensure that children in such schools are given facilities to visit swimming pools in their localities and practise swimming.
§ Miss BaconThis concerns expenditure on the school curriculum, for which local education authorities are responsible.
§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action he plans to take regarding the scheme put to him by the Swimming Teachers Association in Great Britain and the Commonwealth in their letter sent to him by the hon. and learned Member for Aberdeen, North, in view of the need to make regulations for the coming school and swimming season.
§ Mr. Denis HowellI was most interested to learn of the "Swim for Health" Campaign which the Swimming Teachers Association of Great Britain and the Commonwealth is proposing to conduct from 1st January, 1969 and I hope that it will be successful in encouraging many more people to swim.