HC Deb 09 July 1991 vol 194 cc335-6W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the water authorities which have agreed to a request from a health authority to supply floridated water.

Mr. Dorrell

I refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Shersby) on 14 June at columns721–22 and the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) on 27 June at column 547.

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the health authorities in which(a) the whole and (b) part of the authority's population receives fluoridated water.

Mr. Dorrell

The latest information relates to 1988 when a survey of artificial fluoride levels in England was conducted by the British Fluoridation Society. Table 1 lists the district health authority areas where all the population received water artificially fluoridated to at least 0.9 ppm. Table 2 shows those districts where some of the population received water artificially fluoridated to that level.

Table 1.

Districts where artificially fluoridated water at 0.9 ppm was received by all population in the district in 1988.

  • North West Durham
  • Gateshead
  • Newcastle
  • Bassetlaw
  • Sandwell
  • Walsall
  • Solihull
  • North Birmingham
  • East Birmingham
  • Central Birmingham
  • West Birmingham
  • South Birmingham

Table 2.

Districts where artificially fluoridated water at 0.9 ppm was received by some of the population in the district in 1988.

  • East Cumbria
  • West Cumbria
  • Durham
  • South West Durham
  • Northumberland
  • 336
  • North Tyneside
  • Grimsby
  • Scunthorpe
  • Huddersfield
  • Chester
  • Crewe
  • North Derbyshire
  • South Derbyshire
  • North Lincolnshire
  • South Lincolnshire
  • Central Nottingham
  • Doncaster
  • Dudley
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester
  • Bromsgrove and Redditch
  • North Warwickshire
  • South Warwickshire
  • Rugby
  • Coventry
  • Mid Staffordshire
  • East Staffordshire
  • Oxford
  • Wycombe
  • North Bedfordshire
  • South Bedfordshire
  • South West Hertfordshire

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