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Carers

My hon. Friend is making some very good points, and the distinction that she has brought out is important, as is the detail, but may I take her back to the part of the Government's response, which she mentioned? Before acknowledging that there needed to be a distinction between carers' different needs and circumstances, it said that the DWP did not accept that the general support provided to help with caring was inadequate. Basically, therefore, the Government's position is that support for carers is not inadequate. Is that not contrary to all sorts of information that we received when we did our report and that has come up in this debate? Does my hon. Friend agree that the general support for carers is inadequate and that the Government have a blind spot in that regard?