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<p>An estimate of the overall cost to the public purse of paying Carer’s Allowance
to those claimants with an underlying entitlement, but not receiving a payment, is
not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure
on Carer’s Allowance is published within the Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables
2017 – available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017</a></p><p>
</p><p>Official statistics on the number of people (i) receiving a payment for Carer’s
Allowance and (ii) have an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance are available
within Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>
</p><p>Guidance for users is available at: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html"
target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p>
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