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Leicester East has the highest total spending on winter heating payments in 2024-25.

A yearly payment to help people over State Pension age with heating costs. In Scotland, Pension Age Winter Heating Payment replaces Winter Fuel Payment. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £0.36m
  2. £0.36m to £0.47m
  3. £0.47m to £0.58m
  4. £0.58m to £0.69m
  5. £0.69m to £0.79m
  6. £0.79m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating 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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Liverpool Riverside 6Tottenham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 12Glasgow North 15Brent East 24Leicester East 29Blackpool South 76Boston and Skegness 191

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, State Pension: 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.

Benefit
£104.6bnFebruary 2023+£2.1bnPopulation+£5.0bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£104.6bn
Population+£2.1bn
Share claiming+£5.0bn
Payment size+£28.8bn
March 2026£140.6bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 66 and over. 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.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating 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 Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Leicester East£1.1m£8.41£63
2Liverpool Riverside£1.1m£8.03£89
3Queen's Park and Maida Vale£1.1m£8.47£82
4Tottenham£1.0m£7.32£87
5Brent East£1.0m£7.32£66
6Birmingham Ladywood£0.98m£5.87£113
7Blackpool South£0.94m£8.37£47
8Bethnal Green and Stepney£0.92m£6.87£118
9Glasgow North£0.92m£8.02£78Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
10Boston and Skegness£0.92m£7.82£33
11Kensington and Bayswater£0.92m£6.94£54
12Glasgow North East£0.91m£7.88£64Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13Wolverhampton South East£0.90m£7.03£53
14Liverpool Walton£0.90m£8.77£56
15Clacton£0.90m£8.69£29
16Bootle£0.89m£8.58£52
17Knowsley£0.88m£8.91£56
18Torbay£0.88m£8.39£34
19Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£0.88m£6.24£49
20Birmingham Perry Barr£0.88m£6.99£68
21Liverpool West Derby£0.87m£8.60£52
22Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£0.87m£6.94£50
23Walsall and Bloxwich£0.86m£6.89£55
24Tipton and Wednesbury£0.86m£7.31£51
25Holborn and St Pancras£0.86m£7.67£77
26Southgate and Wood Green£0.85m£6.66£48
27Hackney South and Shoreditch£0.85m£7.17£98
28Hackney North and Stoke Newington£0.85m£7.20£86
29Glasgow East£0.84m£8.00£63Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30East Ham£0.84m£6.17£81
31Glasgow West£0.84m£8.22£59Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Clwyd North£0.84m£8.24£34
33Bolton South and Walkden£0.83m£6.40£53
34West Ham and Beckton£0.83m£5.61£85
35Houghton and Sunderland South£0.82m£7.72£39
36Birmingham Erdington£0.82m£6.47£50
36Smethwick£0.82m£6.82£56
38Glasgow South West£0.81m£8.02£60Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£0.81m£6.69£59
40Ealing Southall£0.81m£6.09£52
41Swansea West£0.80m£7.13£45
42Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£0.80m£7.41£40
43Ealing North£0.80m£5.93£49
44Hartlepool£0.80m£8.10£43
45Sunderland Central£0.79m£7.56£41
46Feltham and Heston£0.79m£5.64£52
47Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.79m£8.20£43
48Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£0.79m£6.30£54
49Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£0.79m£6.52£49
50Birkenhead£0.79m£7.17£41

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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