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Dear F. McGinty,

Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act
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Your request has been passed to me to process and I can confirm that it
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Dear F. McGinty,

 

Further to your recent request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, we confirm we do hold the information requested. Please find this
information below:-

 

Our response:

 

 

 

1.    Please list all council-funded public swimming pools that provide
'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions
in your local authority.

We do not hold this information as we do not have any women only / ladies
only sessions within the current swim programmes operating at our two
pools.

 

2.    Which of the listed facilities that advertise 'women only' or
'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions, provide an
environment that is exclusively single sex, i.e., for females only, and
which facilities provide a session that is mixed sex, i.e., do not exclude
males who identify as a woman?

Not applicable

 

3.    Please send me a copy of the council policy or policies that cover
the provision of 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described)
swimming sessions.

We do not hold this information as we do not have any women only / ladies
only sessions within the current swim programmes operating at our two
pools.

 

4.    Please tell me, do the council-funded leisure centres and sports
facilities provide single sex changing rooms and showers in your local
authority?

Individual cubicles are provided within a large changing area for changing
alongside banks of public showers and individual private showers available
for use.

For large bookings, there are group female and male changing rooms also
provided which do not have individual cubicles contained within them.

 

 

 

 

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From: F. McGinty <[FOI #990835 email]>
Sent: 14 June 2023 21:21
To: Freedom of Information <[Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - List of council-funded
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Dear Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council,

1. Please list all council-funded public swimming pools that provide
'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions
in your local authority.

2. Which of the listed facilities that advertise 'women only' or 'ladies
only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions, provide an environment
that is exclusively single sex, i.e., for females only, and which
facilities provide a session that is mixed sex, i.e., do not exclude males
who identify as a woman?

3. Please send me a copy of the council policy or policies that cover the
provision of 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described)
swimming sessions.

4. Please tell me, do the council-funded leisure centres and sports
facilities provide single sex changing rooms and showers in your local
authority?

Yours faithfully,
F. McGinty

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