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.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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