Healthy Start Scheme: Infant Foods
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the affordability of powdered milk in relation to Healthy Start vouchers.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The funding for Healthy Start can be used to buy, or be put towards the cost of, fresh, frozen, or tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh, dried, and tinned pulses, and milk. It can also be put towards the cost of infant formula.
The Healthy Start scheme is kept under review and in April 2026 the value of the weekly payments will increase by 10%.
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