Member

Amendment 161 seeks to enshrine in law a scheme for the automatic enrolment to Healthy Start. Healthy Start is supporting 358,000 vulnerable people. As others have mentioned, application to Healthy Start requires an eligibility check, which makes it more difficult for there to be auto-enrolment, because the prepaid card is a financial product and relevant legislation means that it cannot be issued without the applicant accepting terms. But the point about uptake is important. To improve uptake, the NHS Business Services Authority will write to those eligible to encourage them to apply to the scheme.