Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve support for the health and wellbeing of (a) young and (b) other carers.

The Government is committed to supporting carers to provide care as they would wish, and to do so in a way that supports their own health and wellbeing and other life chances.

In June 2018 we published the cross-Government Carers Action Plan (CAP) 2018-2020 which includes commitments from across Government to support the health and wellbeing of all carers. The CAP includes a chapter containing actions specifically relating to young carers.

In July 2019 we published the ‘Carers action plan 2018 to 2020: 1-year progress review’ to demonstrate the progress the CAP had made so far and plan to publish a final report this summer following the conclusion of the CAP.