Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2018 to Question 138039 on Healthy Start Scheme: Food, how much funding his Department allocated to (a) the Health Start scheme and (b) the Nursery Milk Scheme in each year since 2012-13.

Healthy Start and Nursery Milk schemes are demand led statutory schemes. This means that the Department must meet expenditure arising from legitimate claims made in line with the legislation. Funding is allocated to the schemes to meet the actual demand. The funding allocated to the schemes is accounted for through a single cost centre with total costs shown below. A split by individual scheme is not available in the format requested.