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Water Safety 2025-02-05
05 February 2025
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Lee Pitcher
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Lee Pitcher raised concerns about water safety 2025-02-05 in the House of Commons. Other MPs contributed to the debate.
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Proposes a Bill to make provision about the installation and maintenance of safety equipment at reservoirs, create an offence for damaging or destroying such equipment near bodies of water, and mandate teaching of water safety in schools. Emphasises the tragic death of Sam Haycock who drowned after his friends could not access locked safety equipment.
Lee Pitcher
Lab
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
Highlights that there were 141 deaths in inland open water bodies in 2023, with over 100,000 calls annually to emergency services for water rescues. Proposes a legal responsibility on landowners to provide and maintain safety equipment near reservoirs; introduces a criminal offence for vandalism of such equipment; and seeks to include a requirement in the national curriculum for understanding dangers of swimming in open water.
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