Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 29406

Healthy Start Scheme

Tabled: 5 February 2025
Answered: 17 February 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of uto-enroling eligible families to the Healthy Start scheme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
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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