Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 12732
Healthy Start Scheme
Tabled: 5 November 2024
Answered: 11 November 2024
Question
Emma Lewell
Labour — South Shields
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to automatically enrol eligible families in the NHS Healthy Start programme.
Answer
The Healthy Start scheme was introduced in 2006 to encourage a healthy diet for pregnant women, babies and young children under four from very low-income households. It can be used to buy, or put towards the cost of, fruit, vegetables, pulses, milk and in...
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