HC Deb 28 January 1997 vol 289 cc162-3W
Mr. Etherington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list his Department's grants awarded since 1986 to the British Fluoridation Society indicating the purpose of each grant. [12633]

Mr. Malone

The British Fluoridation Society is an organisation of charitable status which exists to promote the artificial fluoridation of water and has assisted the Department in its objective of improving the oral health of the population. The table gives details of grants to the British Fluoridation Society by the Department of Health since 1986.

Department of Health grants to the British Fluoridation Society for the period from 1986 to 1996
Year £
1996–97 1117,609
1995–96 174,000
1994–95 63,000
1993–94 62,247
Department of Health grants to the British Fluoridation Society for the period from 1986 to 1996
Year £
1992–93 56,000
1991–92 51,491
1990–91 45,784
1989–90 31,000
1988–89 30,000
1987–88 20,000
1986–87 20,000
1985–86 30,000
1 Additional funding made available to finance individual projects.

Mr. Etherington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the scientific work published since 1990 upon which the Government's advisers have based their recommendations to fluoridate water. [12440]

Mr. Malone

It is not possible to provide a full list of scientific publications used in support of the Government's policy of water fluoridation, given that the policy is based on advice obtained from a variety of sources, some external to the Department of Health, each with its own area of expertise and source material on fluoridation.

Mr. Etherington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on departmental staff secondments to the British Fluoridation Society since 1986. [12634]

Mr. Malone

No departmental staff have been seconded to the British Fluoridation Society.

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