Healthy Start Scheme and School Milk

(asked on 5th March 2019) - View Source

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 140109 on Healthy Start and Nursery Milk schemes, how much funding his Department allocated to the (a) Healthy Start scheme and (b) Nursery Milk Scheme in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2017-18 and (iv) 2018-19.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 13th March 2019

The 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, rising or falling in line with the overall uptake for each scheme, and the Government works to ensure that eligible people are aware of the schemes and how they can benefit from them.

The funding allocated to the schemes is accounted for through a single cost centre with total costs is shown in the following table. A split by individual scheme is not available in the format requested.

Total

2010 - 2011

£133,996,866

2011 - 2012

£139,569,214

2012 - 2013

£141,366,339

2013 - 2014

£137,790,212

2014 - 2015

£128,904,379

2015 - 2016

£124,890,649

2016 - 2017

£112,556,870

2017 - 2018

£104,709,791

Audited spend data for the 2018-19 financial year is not yet available.

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