Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many beneficiaries who were previously receiving Healthy Start paper vouchers have not yet re-enrolled via the new online registration system.

The NHS Business Services Authority estimate that as of 13 November 2022 there were 38,089 households which previously were in receipt of paper vouchers which have not successfully applied to the NHS Healthy Start prepaid card scheme. At the same date there were 131,658 households on the prepaid card scheme which were not previously in receipt of paper vouchers.

As of March 2022, uptake of the Healthy Start scheme was estimated to be 72%, higher than the 55% uptake in March 2021.