Question follow-through · 5518
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to obtain contact data for those who are eligible for but not accessing the Healthy Start scheme .
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Healthy Start Scheme · 12 Sept 2024
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to obtain contact data for those who are eligible for but not accessing the Healthy Start scheme .
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2024
Answer published
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) runs the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with the NHS BSA and the Department for Work and Pensions, to enable the NHS BSA to receiv...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Healthy Start Scheme
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Nutrition: Children
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Nurses
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GP Surgeries
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Primary Care: Buildings
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Primary Care: Buildings
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ADHD: Diagnosis
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28 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to regulate non-surgical aesthetic procedures.
Diagnosis: Standards
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