HC Deb 17 February 1988 vol 127 cc671-2W
Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the areas that have provided bottled water to mothers feeding young infants when ground water supplies have exceeded limits in European Economic Community directives.

Mrs. Roe

Water undertakers are not required to inform my right hon. Friend when bottled water is provided for infant feeding because of high nitrate levels in public water supplies. However, I understand that bottled water was supplied to nursing mothers in a village in Worcestershire until July 1987 and will continue to be supplied to a village in the Yorkshire water authority area until the supply is replaced later this year.

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