Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people in receipt of the carer's credit and (b) the total cost of the carer's credit scheme in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

The information requested for Carers Credit is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.