Social Security

Can the Minister say a word about the carer's allowance? Most people who receive it are of working age, and a recent report by the Select Committee on Work and Pensions recommended that the Government should look to synchronise the increase in the carer's allowance with the increase in the minimum wage. It did so because too many carers who are working receive an increase in the minimum wage in the autumn that then disqualifies them from the carer's allowance, and they have to wait until the April uprating before they can be eligible again. Will she examine that particular issue?