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 the number of people currently claiming carer's allowance who care for more than one person.

Administrative data shows that there are 664,610 people in receipt of a Carer's Allowance payment. This data does not provide details of how many people are being cared for.

Family Resources Survey (FRS) data shows that between 8% and 16% of Carer's Allowance recipients care for more than one person.