Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many households previously in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers who were eligible to migrate to Healthy Start cards had not done so by 1 April and are therefore no longer in receipt of their entitlement.
As of 31 March 2022, approximately 67,000 households which had previously received paper vouchers had not successfully applied for the prepaid card scheme. Those previously in receipt of vouchers are continuing to apply for the prepaid card scheme.