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Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants

Asked by Apsana BegumLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 17 July 2026UIN 17432

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Healthy Start will be available to households subject to no recourse to public funds on a permanent basis.

Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson

The Department is currently considering options on whether Healthy Start will be made available to households subject to no recourse to public funds on a permanent basis, and further information will be available in due course.

We do not hold data on the percentage of eligible households who are not currently in receipt of Health Start in the Poplar and Limehouse constituency.

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