Question follow-through · 11914
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing auto-enrolment for Healthy Start.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing auto-enrolment for Healthy Start.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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4 Nov 2024
Answer published
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18 Nov 2024
Answer corrected
The Healthy Start scheme is kept under review. The Healthy Start scheme was introduced in 2006 to encourage a healthy diet for pregnant women, babies, and young children under four years old from very low-income households. It can be used to buy, or put t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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