Carers

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional unpaid carers there will be by (a) 2020 and (b) 2040.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 2nd November 2017

The Department has not made estimates of the numbers of additional informal carers in 2020 or 2040. The Department expects to explore this area further as part of wider work on the sustainability of adult social care.

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