Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason it is her Department's policy that pensioners are not eligible to claim carers allowance; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility of carers allowance to carers who are pensioners.

I refer the honourable member to the answer my colleague, Chloe Smith, the Minister for Disabled People gave on 20 April 2022 to question UIN 154461

It should be noted that Carer’s Allowance is a devolved benefit in Scotland. However, while the Scottish Government builds its capacity to deliver a replacement, DWP Ministers have agreed that the Department should continue to administer Carer’s Allowance on behalf of the Scottish Ministers under an Agency Agreement, on the same basis as it is administered in England and Wales.