To ask His Majesty's Government (1) how many families are forecast to take up the Healthy Start Scheme in the current year, and (2) how many took it up in 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