Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend eligibility for Healthy Start Vouchers by extending the age limit by one year to cover children under the age of five to cover the gap between the end of eligibility to Healthy Start and the start of free school meals; and if he will make a statement.

We have no current plans to do so. The eligibility criteria for the Healthy Start scheme is kept under review.