Question reference: S6W-00090
- Asked by: Neil Gray, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 18 May 2021
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Current status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 1 June 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many carers in the Airdrie and Shotts constituency receive the Carer's Allowance Supplement.
Answer
Social Security Scotland publish statistics for Carer’s Allowance Supplement at local authority level. We do not currently produce statistics by constituency due to the possible disclosure risks caused by producing statistics for overlapping geographies. We will continue to review this when developing future publications.
Since Carer's Allowance Supplement was introduced in April 2018, payments have been made to 9,650 carers in North Lanarkshire local authority area who were eligible on at least one eligibility date from April 2018 to October 2020. For the latest eligibility date of October 2020, payments were made to 7,135 carers in North Lanarkshire.
The most recent statistics were published on 23 rd February 2021 and covered carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance Supplement to the October 2020 eligibility date. This information is available from: https://www.gov.scot/publications/carers-allowance-supplement-october-eligibility-date-2020-and-carers-allowance-disability-living-allowance-attendance-allowance-and-severe-disablement-allowance-at-august-2020-statistics/ . The next publication of Official Statistics is due to be released in August 2021, and will include information to the April 2021 eligibility date.