Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 26540

Carer's Allowance: Wales

Tabled: 27 January 2025
Answered: 31 January 2025

Question

Ben Lake

Plaid CymruCeredigion Preseli

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people living in Wales that have received overpayments of the Carers Allowance.

Answer

Andrew Western
We don’t measure or report Fraud and Error statistics at a regional level. Our benefit review sample sizes are not large enough to support this level of detail measure or report Fraud and Error statistics at a regional level.