Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Healthy Start will be available to households subject to no recourse to public funds on a permanent basis.
The Department is currently considering options on whether Healthy Start will be made available to households subject to no recourse to public funds on a permanent basis, and further information will be available in due course.
We do not hold data on the percentage of eligible households who are not currently in receipt of Health Start in the Poplar and Limehouse constituency.