HC Deb 04 March 1976 vol 906 cc733-4W
Mr. Bowden

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list the areas in the United Kingdom in which the public water supply has been fluoridated and the dates when this was done.

Dr. Owen

The following area health authorities in England are wholly or partly supplied with fluoridated water. The date given for each authority is the first year in which, according to the Department's records, any part of its area received supplies of fluoridated water.

Bedfordshire 1972
Birmingham 1964
Bradford 1972
Buckinghamshire 1973
Cheshire 1975
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1972
Cumbria 1969
Derbyshire 1970
Durham 1968
Gateshead 1968
Hereford and Worcester 1964
Hertfordshire 1956
Humberside 1968
Kirklees 1970
Leeds 1969
Lincolnshire 1969
Newcastle 1968
North Tyneside 1968
Northumberland 1968
Nottinghamshire 1971
Oxfordshire 1972
Sandwell 1964
Solihull 1964
Warwickshire 1968