How does my area compare?

Liverpool Walton has the highest total spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment in 2024-25.

Disability Living Allowance for children, and for adults who claimed it before Personal Independence Payment began. In Scotland, Child Disability Payment replaces it for children. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Total, low to high

Under £9.9m
£9.9m to £12.5m
£12.5m to £15.1m
£15.1m to £17.7m
£17.7m to £20.2m
£20.2m and over

Estimated value

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability 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, Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability 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: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.0bn
Population	+£81.5m
Share claiming	+£955.2m
Payment size	+£1.4bn
March 2026	£8.4bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability 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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank				Notes
1	Liverpool Walton	£28.5m	£278
2	Birkenhead	£26.1m	£238
3	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£25.0m	£217
4	Glasgow North	£24.7m	£215	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
5	Clacton	£24.5m	£237
6	Bootle	£24.4m	£234
7	Glasgow North East	£24.3m	£211	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
8	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	£23.9m	£205
9	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£23.7m	£189
10	Liverpool West Derby	£23.6m	£233
11	Knowsley	£23.2m	£234
12	Wallasey	£23.1m	£235
13	Aberafan Maesteg	£22.8m	£246
14	Rhondda and Ogmore	£22.8m	£226
15	Kingston upon Hull East	£22.6m	£217
16	Glasgow East	£22.6m	£214	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17	Bolton South and Walkden	£22.6m	£173
18	Glasgow West	£22.4m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19	Barnsley South	£22.4m	£207
20	Blackpool South	£22.3m	£198
21	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£22.3m	£195
22	Blackley and Middleton South	£22.1m	£192
23	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£22.0m	£218
24	West Dunbartonshire	£21.9m	£239	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25	Rotherham	£21.9m	£191
26	Sheffield Heeley	£21.8m	£196
27	Glasgow South West	£21.8m	£215	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28	Birmingham Northfield	£21.7m	£198
29	Easington	£21.6m	£225
30	Normanton and Hemsworth	£21.6m	£202
31	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£21.2m	£217	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32	East Thanet	£21.1m	£199
33	Birmingham Erdington	£21.1m	£167
34	Liverpool Riverside	£20.9m	£159
35	Plymouth Moor View	£20.9m	£206
36	Houghton and Sunderland South	£20.9m	£197
37	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£20.9m	£218	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38	Glasgow South	£20.7m	£222	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39	Barnsley North	£20.7m	£192
40	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£20.6m	£209	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41	Airdrie and Shotts	£20.5m	£218	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42	Liverpool Garston	£20.4m	£215
43	Livingston	£20.3m	£191	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£20.2m	£206	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45	Sheffield South East	£20.2m	£189
46	Burnley	£20.1m	£175
47	Blackburn	£20.1m	£169
48	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£20.1m	£210
49	Blyth and Ashington	£20.1m	£189
50	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£19.9m	£181

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.

Every measureThe full list, as plain links

Does the order change when you count per person?

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Every constituency

Choose a measure