Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason Client Level Data on unpaid carers, collected by local authorities, has not yet been published this year; what steps are being taken to publish this information; and when he expects Client Level Data on unpaid carers to be published.

Client Level Data was mandated from 2023 and is a data collection that draws directly from local authorities’ own administrative records.

The first time that Client Level Data was used to inform the adult social care activity report was in October 2025. This report did not publish statistics on support to unpaid carers because the relevant data was incomplete.

Many local authorities delegate unpaid carer support and assessments to external organisations and hence were unable to provide the data from their administrative records. The Department is working with local authorities and stakeholders to improve their recording of data on unpaid carers. We intend to resume publication of the data on unpaid carers as soon as data quality is assessed to be satisfactory.