HC Deb 26 July 1984 vol 64 cc765-6W
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services which countries in Europe have either not allowed or have rejected fluoridation of water supplies.

Mr. John Patten

As far as we are aware, water fluoridation is either not allowed or has been rejected in three European countries. In the Netherlands and Norway fluoridation of the water supplies was held by the courts to be ultra vires. In Sweden legislation permitting fluoridation was repealed by the Swedish Parliament in 1971.