Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135676, on Healthy Start Scheme, how many (a) children and (b) families in England are (i) eligible for and (ii) taking up Healthy Start vouchers.

The most recent management information that the Department holds covers the period from 5 March 2018 until 1 April 2018. This data is provided by the Healthy Start Issuing Unit.

We do not hold any specific data which can identify the number of eligible children and the number of eligible families. The data we hold is for the number of beneficiaries as a whole. The data shows that 402,384 people are eligible for Healthy Start in England and that the number of beneficiaries in receipt of Healthy Start is 266,713.