Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 30602

Carers' Benefits

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 19 February 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of unpaid carers that were entitled to the (a) Carer Premium and (b) Carer Addition in each year since 2000; and what proportion of those recipients were women

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.