Healthy Start Scheme

Mr. Jim Cunningham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry have received vouchers to buy milk, fruit and vegetables under the Healthy Start scheme since its introduction.

Caroline Flint
The information is not available in the format requested.

Data relating to recipients of healthy start vouchers is collected by postcode. In the most recent distribution of healthy start vouchers covering the period 22 January 2007 to 18 February 2007, the number of recipients in postal sector CV, which largely corresponds to Coventry, is 5,712.