Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 98771
Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants
Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 19 December 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the extension to the Healthy Start scheme to families with no recourse to public funds.
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe Department ran a consultation, Eligibility for Healthy Start for groups that have no recourse to public funds or are subject to immigration controls, which provided examples of the potential impacts of extending Healthy Start to families with no recou...
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