Question follow-through · 26540
Carer's Allowance: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people living in Wales that have received overpayments of the Carers Allowance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people living in Wales that have received overpayments of the Carers Allowance.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jan 2025
Answer published
We don’t measure or report Fraud and Error statistics at a regional level. Our benefit review sample sizes are not large enough to support this level of detail measure or report Fraud and Error statistics at a regional level.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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