These Regulations amend the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/193) (“the 2019 Regulations”) which make provision for a scheme to provide benefits for pregnant women, mothers and children. These Regulations provide for an increase in various thresholds and values of the benefits payable under the scheme set out in the 2019 Regulations.

Regulation 3 increases the thresholds below which qualifying forms of assistance allow relevant persons to qualify for the Best Start Foods scheme.

Regulations 4 and 5 increase the amounts of the various values at which Best Start Food benefits are paid.