Question follow-through · 9628

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing auto-enrolment for the Healthy Start scheme.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 21 Oct 2024
Answer: 22 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing auto-enrolment for the Healthy Start scheme.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Healthy Start scheme is kept under review. There have been no discussions with my Rt Hon. Friend, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on introducing auto-enrolment for Healthy Start.The Healthy Start scheme was introduced in 2006 to encourage a h...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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