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Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants

Asked by Jim ShannonDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 19 December 2025UIN 98771

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the extension to the Healthy Start scheme to families with no recourse to public funds.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The Department ran a consultation, Eligibility for Healthy Start for groups that have no recourse to public funds or are subject to immigration controls, which provided examples of the potential impacts of extending Healthy Start to families with no recourse to public funds. The consultation has now closed, and the Department is currently considering options following the consultation. Further information will be available in due course.

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