Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants
Commons · Question 98771 · Tabled 10 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 19 Dec 2025
The 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...