Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of carers in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
The most recent data from the 2011 census shows that the number of carers are:
- United Kingdom wide – 6.5 million
- England – 5.4 million
- Scotland – 492,000
- Wales – 370,000
- Northern Ireland – 214,000