Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of beneficiaries of the Healthy Start scheme (a) before and (b) after the digitisation of that scheme; and if he will make a statement.
The NHS Business Services Authority is currently transferring the Healthy Start Scheme from the Healthy Start Issuing Unit. Once completed, the number of beneficiaries on the digital scheme will be made available. Prior to the transfer process, there were 346,754 beneficiaries on the Healthy Start paper voucher scheme.