Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many households previously in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers had not migrated to cards by the end of March 2022 and are therefore no longer in receipt of their entitlement despite still being eligible for the Healthy Start scheme.

As of 31 March 2022, when the Healthy Start voucher scheme ended, the number of households who had previously received paper vouchers and had not successfully applied for the prepaid card scheme was estimated to be approximately 67,000. People who have previously received paper vouchers have since continued to apply for the prepaid card scheme.