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Excerpts from pages at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091014/debtext/91014-0017.htm and http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091014/debtext/91014-0018.htm Mike O’Brien [The Minister of State, Department of Health] [North Warwickshire, Labour] If we really want to deal with the issues associated with child tooth decay, we will find that the better way to do so is to ensure that we have fluoridated water supplies and that we […]

PUBLIC support for adding fluoride to the drinking water of 8,000 people in Totton would be “vital” under a Conservative government, according to the party’s shadow health minister. The high-profile commitment — made as the next general election gets closer was extracted by fellow Tory New Forest East MP Julian Lewis who wrote asking for […]

The Tories are hoping the furore over plans to fluoridate the water supply in South Hampshire will convince voters to back them at the next general election. Julian Lewis, Conservative MP for New Forest East, named fluoridation as a key local issue that he believed would attract people to the Tories, following a pledge by […]

IT took three times of asking and the casting vote of Southampton’s sheriff. But Southampton’s ancient Court Leet agreed to ask the city council to rethink its support for adding fluoride to tap water. Anti-fluoride campaigners seized the chance to put their case for councillors to vote again on the scheme, which would affect 160,000 […]

A TORY Government would insist on public backing for fluoride being added to Hampshire water supplies, the Daily Echo can reveal. Conservative health chiefs have confirmed the public should have to give their approval for any compulsory fluoridation scheme to be implemented. They plan to hold of review of the much criticised existing consultation process […]

Title or article: Lobby turns to Court Leet ANTI-fluoride campaigners will today petition Southampton’s ancient Court Leet. They want the court, convened once each year to hear public representations, to demand the city council rethinks its support of the scheme. Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) will say the council’s vote was held before the outcome of […]

IT is clear that an overwhelming majority of residents in Southampton do not wish to have fluoride added to their water. The NHS’s initial consultation attracted 10,000 responses, with 72 per cent against. In a separate and later phone poll of 2,000 residents, 38 per cent il opposed fluoridation compared to 32 per cent in […]

ONE of the many things that have angered all of us opposed to the plan to add fluoride to Southampton’s drinking water is that the decision was made by unelected officials. Members of the South Central Strategic Health Authority board, who made the decision to fluoridate the city’s water, are either paid staff or are […]

CAMPAIGNERS have challenged the Prime Minister to make it clear if Hampshire residents should have the final say over plans to fluoridate their water, or admit the public consultation was a farce. Gordon Brown has restated his belief decisions on fluoride should be made locally, but refused to step into the row over whether the […]