Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the data on how many people have signed up for Healthy Start vouchers since the rollout of the online only sign up process.

As of 14 July 2022, 384,848 successful applications have been made using the NHS Healthy Start online application. Of this total, 250,457 successful applications have been made from those who were previously in receipt of paper vouchers; and 134,391 successful applications have been made from those not previously in receipt of paper vouchers. As of 14 July 2022, it is estimated that approximately 46,000 households previously on the paper voucher scheme have not applied online. It is not known what proportion of these households remain eligible for NHS Healthy Start.