Question follow-through · 46882
Healthy Start Scheme: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on the Healthy Start Scheme in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on the Healthy Start Scheme in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
The Department spent £86,382,173 on the Healthy Start scheme in 2023/24. Audited data on the Department’s spend on the Healthy Start scheme for the 2024/25 financial year is not yet available.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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