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Judith Cummins Excerpts
Tuesday 7th May 2019

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Seema Kennedy Portrait Seema Kennedy
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I share the hon. Gentleman’s frustration, and I know that Members have been waiting for this. I am reassured by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that this will happen. I am going to be making it happen before the summer, and I will return to the House to update it.

Judith Cummins Portrait Judith Cummins (Bradford South) (Lab)
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23. The Healthy Start scheme, which provides food vouchers and coupons for free vitamins, reaches only about a third of children living in poverty. It is also woefully out of date; it is worth only £3.10 and it has not been updated since 2009. What are the Government doing to improve both the scale and impact of this important scheme?

Seema Kennedy Portrait Seema Kennedy
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I thank the hon. Lady for her question. The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price), says that she is looking into it and that we will report back.