Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many families receive Healthy Start in South Shields.
Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures on the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at the following link:
https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/
The NHSBSA does not hold data on the number of families receiving Healthy Start. The number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme for South Tyneside in March 2025 was 1,162. The following table shows the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme, broken down by all ward areas in South Tyneside, of which South Shields is a part, as the NHSBSA does not hold data on local constituencies:
Local authority | Ward | People on the digital scheme |
South Tyneside | Beacon and Bents | 44 |
South Tyneside | Bede | 93 |
South Tyneside | Biddick and All Saints | 160 |
South Tyneside | Boldon Colliery | 65 |
South Tyneside | Cleadon and East Boldon | 2 |
South Tyneside | Cleadon Park | 50 |
South Tyneside | Fellgate and Hedworth | 54 |
South Tyneside | Harton | 59 |
South Tyneside | Hebburn North | 79 |
South Tyneside | Hebburn South | 65 |
South Tyneside | Horsley Hill | 82 |
South Tyneside | Monkton | 42 |
South Tyneside | Primrose | 71 |
South Tyneside | Simonside and Rekendyke | 121 |
South Tyneside | West Park | 49 |
South Tyneside | Westoe | 26 |
South Tyneside | Whitburn and Marsden | 24 |
South Tyneside | Whiteleas | 76 |