Healthy Start Scheme: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children live in families eligible for Healthy Start vouchers; and how many and what proportion of those children are in receipt of those vouchers.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures for the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at the following link:
https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/
In April 2025 there were 361,122 people on the digital scheme, and of these there were 328,798 claims supporting children under four years old.
The NHSBSA does not currently hold data on the number of children living in families that are eligible for Healthy Start.
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