Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of applications for carer's allowance by individuals whose dependent has no recourse to public funds which have not been approved in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Lewisham and (c) London in each year of the last five years.

One of the eligibility conditions for Carer’s Allowance is that the disabled person being cared for is receiving a qualifying disability benefit. A list of qualifying disability benefits can be found on https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility. If the person being cared for is not getting one of the qualifying disability benefits because they have no recourse to public funds, then Carer’s Allowance would not be payable. We do not hold administrative data where we could identify that a Carer’s Allowance application has been unsuccessful for this reason.