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 annual economic contribution of unpaid carers to the UK economy.
No specific estimate has been made. However, the 2011 Census reported that there were 6.5 million people of all ages providing unpaid care in the United Kingdom, of which 5.4 million were in England. The Office for National Statistics also estimated that the gross value added of unpaid care in the UK was £59.5 billion in 2016.