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.
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 |