Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been prosecuted for Carer's Allowance (a) overpayments and (b) wrongful payment in the last 10 years.

To provide this information would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department.

The Department would only seek to prosecute an individual where there was strong evidence to suggest that the individual had committed benefit fraud.