Healthy Start Scheme
(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the take-up of Healthy Start vouchers in England, and if he will published the ten local authorities with the (a) lowest and (b) highest rates of take-up of those vouchers.
The take-up rate for Healthy Start vouchers in England is currently 64%.
The lowest and highest rates of Healthy Start vouchers take-up can be seen in the following table:
Local Authority | % Take Up | Local Authority | % Take Up |
Lowest take up | Highest take up | ||
Devon | 56% | Hartlepool | 84% |
Hampshire | 56% | Newcastle upon Tyne | 82% |
Hertfordshire | 55% | Halton | 82% |
Surrey | 54% | Bath and North East Somerset | 81% |
Bracknell Forest | 54% | Redcar and Cleveland | 77% |
Redbridge | 54% | Middlesbrough | 75% |
Rutland | 53% | Gateshead | 75% |
Buckinghamshire | 52% | Stockton-on-Tees | 75% |
Wokingham | 52% | Swindon | 74% |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 47% | Nottingham | 74% |
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Source: Validated but unpublished information on Healthy Start vouchers from an approved statistical collection.