The Independent Review also found a lack of integrated, concerted leadership in relation to Carer’s Allowance overpayments. We asked the Department what it was going to do to make sure that this area got the 52 Letter from Department for Work & Pensions dated 17 December 2025 53 C&AG’s Report, Carer’s Allowance, Session 2024–25, HC 377, 11 December 2024, paras 2.3, 2.7 54 Department for Work & Pensions, Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments, 25 November 2025 55 Q 21 56 Q 21 57 Q 24 58 Qq 21-22 15 attention and leadership it deserved going forward. The Department told us that it had made progress, but not enough. It said that it had appointed a service owner to lead across Carer’s Allowance and to own this problem. It also highlighted that it had eliminated the backlog of earnings alerts received from HM Revenue & Customs. Where previously it had funding to investigate only about 50% of alerts, over the past year it had been funded to look into every alert received and could thereby avoid people generating an overpayment and building up a debt.59 59 Q 22 16