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1697537

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date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were eligible for Healthy Start vouchers in January (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	19622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The number of those eligible for Healthy Start in January 2022 was 553,601, and the number of those eligible in January 2023 was 578,067.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 15:45:54 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1697226

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department has taken to restore the availability of data on Healthy Start uptake on the Healthy Start website.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Andrew Western
uin	19512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has identified an error in their data that means that the data published for Healthy Start uptake from July 2023 onwards was incorrect. It is important to state that the data used to calculate the uptake rate is not used as part of the live check to determine eligibility for individual applicants to Healthy Start, and no individual applicants or beneficiaries have been impacted, The Department for Work and Pensions has fixed the issue, and additional checks have been added to the process to ensure the issue does not occur in the future.</p><p>The incorrect data has been removed from the NHS Healthy Start website by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA), who run the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. Corrected and updated data for March 2024 will be published by the NHS BSA shortly.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 19511 question first answered 27/03/2024 12:14:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western

1682057

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the ability of low-income families to access the NHS Healthy Start scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	9386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Healthy Start scheme helps to encourage a healthy diet for pregnant women, babies and young children under four from low-income households who are in receipt of qualifying benefits. In December 2023, uptake for the Healthy Start scheme was 73%.</p><p>Systems are in place to help eligible families apply for and access the scheme. The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is committed to increasing uptake of the Healthy Start scheme as much as possible to ensure all children have a healthy start in life. NHSBSA actively promotes the Healthy Start scheme through its digital channels and has created free tools to help stakeholders promote the scheme. There is an online application process, allowing for quick outcomes to applications, as well as a helpline to assist with the application process or general questions.</p><p>The eligibility criteria for the Healthy Start scheme are kept under continuous review.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/01/2024 09:35:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1677934

registered interest
date	13/12/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 4438 on Healthy Start Scheme: Expenditure, whether Healthy Start costs have now been published.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	6810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021/22 are due to be published by the end of January 2024. Healthy Start costs will be available following this publication.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 19/12/2023 16:59:44 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1661954

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds the data needed to contact families who are eligible for Healthy Start payments but are not accessing that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Andrew Western
uin	200467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. NHSBSA is currently working with the Department for Work and Pensions to obtain contact data for those eligible for but not accessing the Healthy Start scheme.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 16/10/2023 15:47:00 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western

1522684

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many recipients of Healthy Start vouchers are not in receipt of prepaid cards despite remaining eligible for the scheme.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority estimates that as of 18 October 2022, there were 2,954 households previously were in receipt of paper vouchers which have not successfully applied to the NHS Healthy Start prepaid card scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 13:13:57 question first ministerially corrected 28/09/2023 10:34:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham previous answer version 31476 answering member printed Lord Markham answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester