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Water Supply: Fluoride

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL6061, tabled on 24 March 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to water companies of adding fluoride to the water supply.

Answered on

1 April 2025

My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is responsible for reimbursing water undertakers for the reasonable costs associated with water fluoridation schemes. In the financial year 2023/24, these costs were £4,109,521 in revenue and £348,351 in capital for the estimated six million people in England covered by such schemes.