Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people (a) eligible for and (b) that have taken up Healthy Start vouchers.
Between 4 February and 3 March 2019 there were 515,210 beneficiaries eligible to make an application for Healthy Start vouchers. Of these, 282,303 beneficiaries have made an application and have been accepted onto the scheme. There may, in some cases, be more than one beneficiary per household.