Carer's Allowance: Expenditure

(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of providing carer's allowance to people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 17th June 2020

The cost of providing Carer’s Allowance in Great Britain was £2,883 million for the period 2018/19. Executive competence for Carer’s Allowance in Scotland was transferred to the Scottish Government on 3rd September 2018. This figure therefore includes Scottish data up until 3rd September 2018 only.

Carer’s Allowance is paid to people living in Scotland by DWP on behalf of the Scottish Government under an Agency Agreement. The Scottish Government is responsible for providing relevant data as such we cannot provide figures at either the Scotland or constituency level.

Information relating to benefit expenditure is published and available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020

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