Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure recipients of Healthy Start vouchers are not excluded from the scheme once the vouchers have been replaced by pre-paid cards.
The NHS Business Service Authority are in the process of transferring existing Healthy Start beneficiaries, who are in receipt of paper vouchers, to the new pre-paid card scheme. All beneficiaries will be given the opportunity to apply to the NHS Healthy Start scheme, before the paper voucher service closes on 31 March 2022.