Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department carried out an equality impact assessment on the decision to not offer new parents on legacy benefits access to the Healthy Start scheme.
Legislation on eligibility for the Healthy Start scheme for pregnant women and families on legacy benefits was introduced in 2005 and updated in 2008. An equality impact assessment was carried out in 2008 and a regulatory impact assessment was carried out in 2005.