Healthy Start Scheme
(asked on 26th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on the Healthy Start Scheme in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 31st January 2017
Expenditure on the Healthy Start Scheme in England is demand-led and based on the number of eligible people who apply for the scheme. Each annual figure, set out in the following table, includes both the reimbursement of Healthy Start vouchers and the costs of administering the scheme.
2010/11 £91 million
2011/12 £90 million
2012/13 £90 million
2013/14 £82 million
2014/15 £74 million
2015/16 £64 million