Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of unpaid carers in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire.
No specific estimate has been made. However, the 2011 Census reported there were 6.5 million people of all ages providing unpaid care in the United Kingdom, with 5.4 million in England.