Question follow-through · 56747
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) expanding eligibility for Healthy Start and (b) increasing the payments for Healthy Start recipients on (i) maternal and (ii) child heal
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) expanding eligibility for Healthy Start and (b) increasing the payments for Healthy Start recipients on (i) maternal and (ii) child heal
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Under the Health Mission, the Government is committed to prevention and to tackling obesity, creating a fairer, healthier food environment. Pregnant women and children aged under four years old and over one year old each receive £4.25 every week, and chil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Healthy Start Scheme
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) local authorities to increase Healthy Start scheme uptake.
Healthy Start Scheme
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the proportion of eligible people that have not enrolled in the Healthy Start scheme in (a) Gorton and Denton constituency and (b) England.
Sodium Valproate: Compensation
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that any future redress to those affected by in-utero exposure to sodium valproate includes both (a) financial and (b) non-financial compensa
Pregnancy: Drugs
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the medicines licensing process for novel medications in being able to detect potential teratogenicity prior to the medicine being made available
Pregnancy: Drugs
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of prescribing practices of medicines with known teratogenic properties.
Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to implement the compensation recommendations in the Hughes Report, published on 7 February 2024.
Department of Health and Social Care: Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
23 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times his Department has accepted in full the position of the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s (a) findings and (b) recommendations on (i) issuing an apology and (ii) other forms of redress in th
Heart Diseases: Screening
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase cardiac screening for people with a familial risk of sudden cardiac death.
Heart Diseases: Health Services
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review on the prevention of sudden cardiac death that includes (a) an estimation of the incidence of sudden cardiac death, (b) methods to (i) detect and (ii) minimise cardiac c
Health Services: Young People
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will implement a national youth health strategy to reduce mortality in people under 39 that includes (a) mental health conditions and (b) sudden cardiac death.
Heart Diseases: Young People
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Screening Committee plans to publish an update to guidance on screening for sudden cardiac death in people under 39.
Cancer: Health Services
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to (a) improve the early detection of cancer, (b) reduce cancer care waiting times and (c) increase cancer survival rates.