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People entitled to Carer's Allowance, England and Wales

People entitled to Carer's Allowance from DWP in England and Wales. Carers in Scotland now have Carer Support Payment instead.

England and Wales

1,408,002

Mar 2026

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:44 UTC
England and Wales
0500k1.0m1.5mMay 18Nov 19May 21Nov 22May 24Mar 261.4m

Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

32 periods, newest first

PeriodEngland and Wales
Mar 20261,408,002
Nov 20251,390,572
Aug 20251,376,426
May 20251,364,959
Feb 20251,351,217
Nov 20241,335,581
Aug 20241,314,412
May 20241,300,892
Feb 20241,281,731
Nov 20231,261,076
Aug 20231,250,554
May 20231,237,351
Feb 20231,234,934
Nov 20221,242,441
Aug 20221,233,621
May 20221,209,170
Feb 20221,197,854
Nov 20211,186,854
Aug 20211,183,169
May 20211,180,603
Feb 20211,179,602
Nov 20201,178,981
Aug 20201,177,980
May 20201,188,544
Feb 20201,187,100
Nov 20191,174,968
Aug 20191,177,635
May 20191,177,699
Feb 20191,180,754
Nov 20181,167,023
Aug 20181,170,181
May 20181,160,297

Nations and English regions, Mar 2026

AreaNumber
England and Wales1,408,002
England1,312,702
Wales93,516
North East94,056
North West208,934
Yorkshire and The Humber157,052
East Midlands118,889
West Midlands164,026
East of England127,372
London172,936
South East163,418
South West106,023

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Source and licence

Publisher
Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore
Check it yourself
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
30 October 2026, 11:43 UTC
Verified in
GitHub Actions run 41047883220, which alone can query Stat-Xplore; its raw response is not kept
Raw files fetched

Verification

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:44 UTC Run at 30 October 2026, 11:44 UTC; 44 of 44 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedDepartment for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-30T11:43:22Z; 1 Stat-Xplore response, read in the Actions job and never stored
PassRe-parsing the response reproduces figures44 of 44 figures reproduced by reading the response again in the Actions job
PassFigures are finite numbers44 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure44 of 44 figures match exactly after querying Stat-Xplore again (1 of 1 responses byte-identical)
PassStat-Xplore figures are currentlatest month March 2026 ended 213 days before retrieval (limit 560)
PassGOV.UK annual compendium agreesEngland and Wales, March 2026: Stat-Xplore's 1,408,002, rounded to the nearest 1,000, equals the compendium's 1,408,000, in https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026. Earlier months are checked by the live re-fetch only
Not runNations add up to the totalEngland and Wales sum to 1,406,218 in March 2026, −1,784 on the total of 1,408,002. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
Not runEnglish regions add up to EnglandThe nine English regions sum to 1,312,706 in March 2026, +4 on the total of 1,312,702. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
PassSource page answershttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries – HTTP 200

Notes

  • Entitled cases, including people whose payment is not made because they receive another benefit. Carers in Scotland have moved to Carer Support Payment from Social Security Scotland, so, as DWP advises, the series is DWP's own cases: England, Wales and abroad, without the residual claims in Scotland.
  • DWP's total, like its published figures, includes cases abroad and cases whose address is not known, so the nations may not add up exactly to it.
  • DWP adds a small random amount to every figure in Stat-Xplore to protect confidentiality (it calls this Introduced Random Error) and publishes no bound for it, so nations and regions may not add up exactly to the total. The verification page shows the gaps for information.
  • Each refresh compares the March figure with DWP's Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium on GOV.UK, to the nearest thousand; every other month is checked against Stat-Xplore itself, queried twice.
  • The full series is on DWP's Stat-Xplore (stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk), where anyone with a free account can build the same table.