Question follow-through · 51073

Fluoride: Drinking Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of fluoridisation of water for dental health.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 15 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of fluoridisation of water for dental health.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
Water fluoridation is an evidence based, effective public health intervention for improving the oral health of children and adults. The 2022 Health Monitoring Report showed that five-year-olds were less likely to experience dental caries, and less likely ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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