Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual Healthy Start vouchers have been used in each of the last 10 years for which data are available.
A total of around 256 million Healthy Start vouchers have been redeemed within the last 10 complete financial years. A full breakdown of the redemption within each year can be found in the following table.
Redeemed Healthy Start Vouchers | |
Financial Year | Total |
2009/10 | 31,632,099 |
2010/11 | 31,825,262 |
2011/12 | 31,152,563 |
2012/13 | 31,322,441 |
2013/14 | 29,191,004 |
2014/15 | 26,105,893 |
2015/16 | 22,691,074 |
2016/17 | 19,927,901 |
2017/18 | 17,462,707 |
2018/19 | 14,585,372 |
Grand Total | 255,896,316 |
Source: Healthy Start Reimbursement Unit