Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide, in the form of a table, the number of families who they forecast will take up the Healthy Start Scheme in the current year, alongside the figures for the previous five years.

We have no current plans to make a forecast of the number of families who will take up the Healthy Start scheme in the current year. Forecast data for the previous five years is not available.

The following table shows the number of beneficiaries on the Healthy Start scheme in the previous five years.