Question follow-through · 82604
Social Security Benefits: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many carers aged 18 to 21 receive (a) Universal Credit and Carer's Allowance and (b) the carer element of Universal Credit but not Carer's Allowance in England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many carers aged 18 to 21 receive (a) Universal Credit and Carer's Allowance and (b) the carer element of Universal Credit but not Carer's Allowance in England.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
Data from February 2025 shows that there were 15,872 people aged 18-21 who received Universal Credit and Carer’s Allowance in England. The source for this figure is the benefit combinations dataset on Stat-Xplore. The department does not hold data on how ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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