CLOSURE OF MIDDLECROFT SWIMMING POOL

Early day motion 1411, tabled 18 January 2006 by Natascha Engel (Labour). Signed by 31 members.

That this House congratulates the Spire Oaks Swimming Club for disabled swimmers on its brilliant achievements to date; welcomes the campaign of the Middlecroft Leisure Centre Action Group and agrees with them that `you can't learn to swim in a gym'; condemns Liberal Chesterfield Council for its decision to close the only disabled swimming facility available to world-record-breaking disabled swimmers from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; and demands an immediate reversal of this elitist decision.

Signatures by party: Labour 28, Conservative 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.