Healthy Start Scheme: North East

(asked on 13th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 17 May 2021 to Question 234 on Healthy Start Scheme: North East, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the fall in the take-up rate of Healthy Start vouchers in each local authority area in the North East from 2016-17 to 2020-21; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 23rd May 2022

No specific assessment has been made. The attached table shows data on the uptake of Healthy Start in each local authority area in the North East in each month in 2021/22. Data for April 2022 is not yet available.

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