Question follow-through · 1661
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS Business Services Authority is taking to ensure independent shopkeepers and convenience store staff (a) are aware of NHS Healthy Start cards and (b) enable all eligible families
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS Business Services Authority is taking to ensure independent shopkeepers and convenience store staff (a) are aware of NHS Healthy Start cards and (b) enable all eligible families
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), who delivers the scheme on behalf of the Department, has created a public toolkit specifically for retailers, inclusive of independent shopkeepers and convenience store staff, to help them promote the scheme t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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