Healthy Start Scheme

(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 3rd October 2019

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

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