Question reference: S6W-23978
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 19 December 2023
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 11 January 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many people and (a) what percentage of the total number of people who have received a Best Start Foods card have not activated their card since the scheme was established to date.
Answer
The Third-party provider, Allpay, supplies Best Start Food cards on behalf of Social Security Scotland.
Data from Allpay is only available from January 2021.
- Total quantity of live accounts: 76,071
- Total quantity of cards in the Not-Activated status: 6,859
- 9.02% of cards Not-Activated
This data may include multiple duplicate accounts.
A user with a Not-Activated account may also have an account in an Activated status.