Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure new parents are not negatively impacted by not being eligible for the Healthy Start scheme.

The Healthy Start scheme helps to encourage a healthy diet for pregnant women, babies and young children under four from low-income households.

We are expanding family hubs to more areas and supporting the implementation of the Early Years Healthy Development Review. We announced £300 million to fund a network of Family Hubs, Start for Life services, perinatal mental health support, breastfeeding services, and parenting programmes in 75 local authorities over the next three years, and a further £200 million to expand the Supporting Families programme.