Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of those entitled to Healthy Start vouchers have accessed those vouchers in York.
The Healthy Start voucher scheme ended on 31 March 2022 and paper vouchers have been replaced by pre-paid cards. In York in March 2022, of the 938 beneficiaries eligible for the NHS Healthy Start scheme, there were 698 beneficiaries or 75% of those in the paper voucher scheme and the prepaid card scheme.