Healthy Start Scheme

(asked on 16th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the proportion of eligible people that have not enrolled in the Healthy Start scheme in (a) Gorton and Denton constituency and (b) England.


Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th June 2025

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures for the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, at the following link:

https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/

The NHSBSA does not hold data on local constituencies, although it does hold data on the local authorities within which the Gorton and Denton constituency sits. Therefore, the following table shows the number of people on the digital scheme, as of 23 May 2025, in the Manchester and Tameside local authorities:

Local authority

Number of people on the digital scheme

Manchester

5,383

Tameside

1,858

In addition, the following table shows the number of people on the digital scheme, as of 23 May 2025, in England:

Country

Number of people on the digital scheme

England

328,685


The NHSBSA does not currently hold the data on the number of people eligible for Healthy Start or the proportion of eligible people who have not enrolled.

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