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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has the highest spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Per resident, low to high

Under £48
£48 to £65
£65 to £83
£83 to £100
£100 to £117
£117 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment: yearly spending at the rate in February 2023 and in March 2026. The chart splits the change into three parts: the number of people in the age group, the share of them claiming, and the average payment. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023	£3.1bn
Population	+£41.9m
Share claiming	+£531.9m
Payment size	+£649.7m
March 2026	£4.3bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. Yearly spending here is the number claiming, times the average weekly payment, times 52. It is not the amount paid out over the year. Population after mid-2024 stays at the mid-2024 figure, so later growth shows in the share claiming. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Spending on working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25. We compare it with the level we would expect from each area's share of children and of people aged 66 and over, how deprived it is compared with the rest of its nation, and the typical pay of people who live there. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Expected level = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank
1	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£21.1m	£183	£287
2	Bradford West	£22.5m	£177	£273
3	Bradford East	£20.4m	£164	£258
4	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£19.9m	£159	£255
5	Easington	£14.4m	£150	£244
6	Rotherham	£17.0m	£148	£235
7	Walsall and Bloxwich	£18.3m	£146	£231
8	Liverpool Walton	£14.7m	£144	£228
9	Aberafan Maesteg	£13.0m	£140	£231
10	Bradford South	£15.4m	£137	£221
11	Birmingham Yardley	£16.1m	£136	£215
12	Tipton and Wednesbury	£15.9m	£135	£216
13	Hartlepool	£13.3m	£135	£221
14	Derby South	£16.8m	£134	£207
15	Knowsley	£13.2m	£133	£212
16	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£15.7m	£129	£200
17	Barnsley South	£13.9m	£128	£206
18	Houghton and Sunderland South	£13.6m	£128	£210
19	Wolverhampton South East	£16.3m	£127	£203
20	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£12.0m	£125	£203
21	Sheffield South East	£13.4m	£125	£200
22	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£15.0m	£124	£192
23	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£12.5m	£124	£202
24	Washington and Gateshead South	£11.9m	£124	£204
25	Blackburn	£14.7m	£123	£196
26	Stockton North	£12.9m	£123	£198
27	Birkenhead	£13.5m	£123	£196
28	Blyth and Ashington	£12.9m	£122	£201
29	Blackpool South	£13.7m	£122	£195
30	Rhondda and Ogmore	£12.3m	£122	£196
31	Birmingham Northfield	£13.3m	£121	£198
32	Birmingham Perry Barr	£15.2m	£121	£185
33	Bootle	£12.5m	£120	£190
34	Kingston upon Hull East	£12.5m	£120	£194
35	Liverpool West Derby	£12.0m	£119	£189
36	Birmingham Erdington	£15.0m	£119	£186
37	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£12.8m	£118	£194
38	Dewsbury and Batley	£12.6m	£118	£184
39	Redcar	£11.2m	£117	£198
40	Bolton South and Walkden	£15.1m	£116	£185
41	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£11.1m	£115	£188
42	Clacton	£11.8m	£115	£216
43	Dudley	£12.0m	£115	£186
43	Sheffield Heeley	£12.8m	£115	£181
45	Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton	£13.4m	£114	£182
46	Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor	£11.2m	£114	£187
47	South Shields	£10.3m	£113	£189
48	Rawmarsh and Conisbrough	£10.9m	£113	£184
49	Birmingham Ladywood	£18.9m	£113	£154
50	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£12.3m	£112	£180

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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