Fluoride: Drinking Water

(asked on 23rd November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they have made for the capital funding costs of new fluoridation schemes.


This question was answered on 7th December 2015

Since April 2013 Public Health England (PHE), on behalf of the Secretary of State, has recovered the operational costs of water fluoridation from local authorities served by these arrangements. The Secretary of State is required to meet the reasonable fluoridation capital and operating costs incurred by water undertakers in England and has the power to require local authorities to make payments to the Secretary of State to meet any such costs he has incurred. There are no proposed changes to the legislation affecting these arrangements.


Funding arrangements for the capital costs of new fluoridation schemes in England will need to be agreed between local authorities and PHE, on behalf of the Secretary of State, as part of the preparatory work before the scheme can commence.

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