Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the take-up rate for Healthy Start vouchers is in the (a) Liverpool City Region and (b) local authority areas of (i) Halton, (ii) Knowsley, (iii) Liverpool, (iv) Sefton, (v) St Helens and (vi) the Wirral.

The uptake for Healthy Start vouchers in the Liverpool City region is 71%. A breakdown for the requested areas is shown in the following table:

Source:

Validated but unpublished information from the Healthy Start Implementation Unit.

5,265 Universal Credit beneficiaries are currently receiving Healthy Start vouchers. This figure is not available as a proportion of the total number of eligible families who claim Universal Credit.