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Liverpool Walton has the highest total spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment in 2024-25.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £30.9m
  2. £30.9m to £41.7m
  3. £41.7m to £52.5m
  4. £52.5m to £63.3m
  5. £63.3m to £74.1m
  6. £74.1m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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

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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 total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Easington 4Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 5Knowsley 6Rhondda and Ogmore 7Birkenhead 9Blackpool South 11Liverpool Riverside 27

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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.

£20.1bnJuly 2023+£286.9mPopulation+£6.8bnShare claiming+£3.3bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£20.1bn
Population+£286.9m
Share claiming+£6.8bn
Payment size+£3.3bn
July 2026£30.5bn
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.

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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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£101.8m£994
2Liverpool Riverside£95.6m£726
3Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£93.5m£978
4Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£90.8m£903
5Blackpool South£90.1m£800
6Birkenhead£89.9m£819
7Knowsley£88.8m£896
8Rhondda and Ogmore£88.6m£876
9Aberafan Maesteg£87.7m£944
10Easington£87.3m£907
11Bootle£86.9m£833
12Birmingham Erdington£86.0m£682
13Swansea West£85.5m£758
14Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£84.6m£734
15Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£82.7m£683
16Liverpool West Derby£82.6m£817
17Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£81.5m£650
18Glasgow North£79.4m£690Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Neath and Swansea East£79.2m£776
20Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£78.7m£560
21Barnsley South£78.6m£729
22Rotherham£78.6m£685
23Glasgow North East£78.0m£678Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24Birmingham Ladywood£77.7m£466
25Clwyd North£77.5m£764
26Bolton South and Walkden£77.4m£594
27Walsall and Bloxwich£77.4m£619
28Dundee Central£77.2m£732Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Houghton and Sunderland South£76.9m£725
30Caerphilly£76.4m£787
31Wolverhampton South East£76.1m£593
32Nottingham North and Kimberley£76.0m£691
33Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend£76.0m£633
34Tipton and Wednesbury£75.5m£643
35Wallasey£74.5m£758
36Newport East£74.4m£636
37Derby South£74.2m£592
38Blackley and Middleton South£74.2m£643
39Hartlepool£74.0m£753
40Llanelli£74.0m£775
41Bradford West£73.9m£582
42Blyth and Ashington£73.2m£691
43Barnsley North£72.8m£676
44Glasgow East£72.6m£688Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Birmingham Northfield£72.2m£660
46Glasgow West£72.1m£707Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
47Wythenshawe and Sale East£72.1m£631
48Coventry East£72.1m£575
49Torfaen£72.1m£766
50Stoke-on-Trent Central£71.0m£595

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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