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.
Answered on
25 April 2023
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.
Month and year | Number of beneficiaries on the scheme |
April 2018 | 320,613 |
April 2019 | 289,160 |
April 2020 | 274,521 |
April 2021 | 337,204 |
April 2022 | 315,851 |
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care