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Bradford West has the highest total spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment 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.

Total, low to high

Under £5.1m
£5.1m to £7.1m
£7.1m to £9.2m
£9.2m to £11.2m
£11.2m to £13.2m
£13.2m and over

Estimated value

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, total, 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.

More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

Total or per person

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 total 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 total, 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	Bradford West	£22.5m	£177	£273
2	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£21.1m	£183	£287
3	Bradford East	£20.4m	£164	£258
4	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£19.9m	£159	£255
5	Birmingham Ladywood	£18.9m	£113	£154
6	Walsall and Bloxwich	£18.3m	£146	£231
7	Rotherham	£17.0m	£148	£235
8	Derby South	£16.8m	£134	£207
9	Wolverhampton South East	£16.3m	£127	£203
10	Birmingham Yardley	£16.1m	£136	£215
11	Tipton and Wednesbury	£15.9m	£135	£216
12	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£15.7m	£129	£200
13	Bradford South	£15.4m	£137	£221
14	Birmingham Perry Barr	£15.2m	£121	£185
15	Bolton South and Walkden	£15.1m	£116	£185
16	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£15.0m	£107	£158
17	Birmingham Erdington	£15.0m	£119	£186
18	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£15.0m	£124	£192
19	Liverpool Walton	£14.7m	£144	£228
20	Blackburn	£14.7m	£123	£196
21	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£14.7m	£109	£142
22	Easington	£14.4m	£150	£244
23	Barnsley South	£13.9m	£128	£206
24	Blackpool South	£13.7m	£122	£195
25	Enfield North	£13.7m	£107	£167
26	Houghton and Sunderland South	£13.6m	£128	£210
27	Peterborough	£13.6m	£103	£164
28	Poplar and Limehouse	£13.5m	£90	£116
29	Birkenhead	£13.5m	£123	£196
30	Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton	£13.4m	£114	£182
31	Sheffield South East	£13.4m	£125	£200
32	Hartlepool	£13.3m	£135	£221
33	Birmingham Northfield	£13.3m	£121	£198
34	Knowsley	£13.2m	£133	£212
35	Brent East	£13.1m	£95	£140
36	Aberafan Maesteg	£13.0m	£140	£231
37	Liverpool Riverside	£13.0m	£99	£129
38	Leicester West	£13.0m	£96	£143
39	Blyth and Ashington	£12.9m	£122	£201
40	Stockton North	£12.9m	£123	£198
41	Blackley and Middleton South	£12.8m	£111	£178
42	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	£12.8m	£110	£178
43	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£12.8m	£118	£194
44	Burnley	£12.8m	£111	£182
45	Sheffield Heeley	£12.8m	£115	£181
46	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£12.7m	£102	£159
47	Gorton and Denton	£12.6m	£106	£165
48	Dewsbury and Batley	£12.6m	£118	£184
49	Bootle	£12.5m	£120	£190
50	Tottenham	£12.5m	£90	£126

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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