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 that recipients of Healthy Start coupons can continue to redeem those coupons with retailers that do not possess chip-and-pin machines once vouchers have been replaced by pre-paid cards.

Retailers who are currently registered with the Healthy Start scheme can continue to accept Healthy Start paper vouchers that are valid. Retailers must submit these to the Healthy Start Reimbursement Unit within six months of the expiry date on the voucher. Healthy Start beneficiaries will no longer receive paper vouchers after this service ends on 31 March 2022. Vouchers can be used until the expiry date shown.