Carers: Gender
(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the gender split of carers in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
This question was answered on 29th April 2019
The 2011 census showed that in the United Kingdom approximately 42% of carers were men and 58% were women.
The 2016/17 Survey of Adult Carers in England showed that in England approximately 33% of carers were male and 67% of carers were female.
The gender split of carers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is not held centrally.