Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) women and (b) children were eligible to receive Healthy Start vouchers in each year since 2012-13.
The information is not available in the format requested. We are able to provide data for the number of women and children eligible for Healthy Start since 2014/15, we do not hold this detailed information prior to this date. This is shown in the following table:
| Eligible to apply Women | Eligible to apply Children |
2014/15 | 22,736 | 626,527 |
2015/16 | 19,512 | 564,214 |
2016/17 | 15,465 | 536,839 |
2017/18 | 15,196 | 503,585 |
Note:
Validated but unpublished information on Healthy Start beneficiaries.