Carers

(asked on 15th February 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 25th February 2019

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

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