Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of Healthy Start voucher users have been (a) successfully contacted about the new digital scheme and (b) transferred to the replacement prepaid card system as of 11 May 2022.

Each household receiving the Healthy Start vouchers who remained eligible was contacted during the transition to the new card service. The total number of households contacted was 248,204. Beneficiaries were not directly transferred from the paper scheme to the digital scheme, as all applicants are required to accept the terms and conditions of the digital scheme before an application can be submitted. As of 11 May 2022, 358,783 households have applied to the digital scheme, of which 243,641 households were previously on the paper voucher scheme.