Healthy Start Scheme: Food

(asked on 25th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department allocated to Healthy Start welfare foods payments in each year since 2012-13.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 30th April 2018

The data below is the incurred spend for the welfare foods schemes which are made up of the Healthy Start scheme and the Nursery Milk scheme. The data is shown in the following table:

Healthy Start - Welfare Foods

2012-13

£141,366,339

2013-14

£137,790,212

2014-15

£128,904,379

2015-16

£124,890,649

2016-17

£112,556,870

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