Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 31607

Healthy Start Scheme

Tabled: 13 February 2025
Answered: 28 February 2025

Question

Shockat Adam

IndependentLeicester South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to maximise take up of 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 years old from very low-income households. It can be used to buy, or put towards the cost of, fruit, vegetables, pulses, ...

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