Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve unpaid carers' awareness of the support available to them.

The Hon Member is right to point out that, as well as reviewing the levels of support that are available to unpaid carers through the Casey Commission, it is important to make each individual currently acting as an unpaid carer aware of the support that is available to them at present. That was therefore a key objective of our Unpaid Carers Action Plan, published in July, and available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unpaid-carers-action-plan-recognise-refer-reach/unpaid-carers-action-plan-recognise-refer-reach