Healthy Start Scheme
Commons · Question 12732 · Tabled 5 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Emma Lewell
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
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 11 Nov 2024
Corrected 18 Nov 2024 by Andrew Gwynne
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...