Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill — Clause 3 — Removal of entitlement to health in pregnancy grant — 22 Nov 2010 at 20:45

The majority of MPs voted to scrap the Health in Pregnancy Grant.

MPs were debating the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill^[1]. The amendment voted on and rejected was:

• page 2, line 22 leave out Clause 3.

This would have removed the Clause^[2] from the bill which was titled Removal of entitlement to health in pregnancy grant.

The explanatory notes to the Bill^[3] explain the purpose of that clause:

• The Bill also removes entitlement to the health in pregnancy grant where a woman reaches the 25th week of her pregnancy on or after 1st January 2011.
• The health in pregnancy grant was introduced in April 2009; it is a lump sum payment to almost all expectant women, made once they satisfy prescribed conditions as to the stage of their pregnancy, having received appropriate maternal health advice from health professionals.
• [1] Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill webpage on the UK Parliament website
• [2] Clause 3 of the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill as at 24.11.2010
• [3] Explanatory notes to the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill as brought from the House of Commons on 23rd November 2010

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