§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the area health authorities which have voted in favour of artificial fluoridation of the public water supply, together with the county, district and parish councils in the areas covered by the health authorities and the decisions which those elected bodies have made on fluoridation.
§ Mr. Moyle:The following area health authorities in England have so far decided in favour of seeking to introduce this valuable preventive health measure in their areas. The remainder of the Question could be answered only at disproportionate cost, but I would refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Mr. Bradford) on 13th December 1978.—[Vol. 960, c. 232–3.]
Northern region
Cleveland ; Cumbria ; Durham ; Northumberland ; Gateshead ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; South Tyneside ; Sunderland.
Yorkshire region
North Yorkshire; Bradford; Calderdale Kirklees ; Leeds ; Wakefield.
Trent region
Derbyshire; Leicestershire; Lincolnshire; Nottinghamshire; Doncaster ; Rotherham:Sheffield.
East Anglia region
Cambridgeshire ; Norfolk ; Suffolk.
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Bedfordshire; Hertfordshire; Barnet; Brent and Harrow; Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow ; Hillingdon ; Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster.
North-East Thames region
Essex; Barking and Havering ; Camden and Islington ; City and East London ; Enfield and Haringey ; Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
South-East Thames region
East Sussex; Kent; Greenwich and Bexley: Bromley ; Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.
South-West Thames region
Surrey; West Sussex; Croydon ; Kingston and Richmond ; Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Wessex region
Dorset ; Hampshire ; Wiltshire.
Oxford region
Berkshire ; Buckinghamshire ; Northamptonshire ; Oxfordshire.
South-Western region
Avon; Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ; Devon ; Gloucestershire ; Somerset.
West Midlands region
Hereford and Worcester; Salop: Staffordshire; Warwickshire; Birmingham; Coventry ; Dudley ; Sandwell ; Solihull ; Walsall.
Mersey region
Cheshire; Liverpool; St. Helens and Knowsley ; Sefton.
North-Western region
Lancashire; Bolton; Bury: Manchester ; Oldham ; Rochdale ; Salford ; Stockport ; Tameside ; Trafford ; Wigan.
§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether an indemnity has been offered to any water authority to cover it against successful legal claims made against it arising from fluoridation of the public water supplies; and, if so, whether he will publish in theOfficial Reportthe terms of such an indemnity.
§ Mr. Moyle:My predecessors and I have offered such an indemnity to water authorities since 1962, after the publication of the report on the successful conclusion of the first five years of the official fluoridation studies in the United Kingdom—Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects No. 105, HMSO. I am sending a copy of the current indemnity 629W to the hon. Member and placing one in the Library.