PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fluoride: Drinking Water (4 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding existing water fluoridation arrangements in Nottinghamshire to cover the whole of (a) Nottingham and (b) Nottinghamshire.

Asked by:
James Naish (Labour)

No such assessment has been made. Public consultation is required on proposals for new, or the expansion of existing, community water fluoridation schemes. The Water Fluoridation (Consultation) (England) Regulations 2022 set out the requirements, and is available at the following link:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1163/contents/made

Answered by:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
14 October 2024