Who Gets What

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Brent East has the highest total benefit spending in 2023-24.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Benefit spending, total, 2023-24, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £328.7m
  2. £328.7m to £370.3m
  3. £370.3m to £411.9m
  4. £411.9m to £453.5m
  5. £453.5m to £495.2m
  6. £495.2m and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, total, 2023-24, 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 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Blackpool South 7Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 31Brent East 36Boston and Skegness 40Queen's Park and Maida Vale 41Enfield North 53Birmingham Erdington 61Tottenham 77Birmingham Ladywood 426

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?

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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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

Benefit spending, 2023-24. 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Brent East£659.6m£4,861
2Tottenham£632.1m£4,572
3Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£617.6m£4,929
4Enfield North£606.4m£4,746
5Clacton£602.6m£5,925
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£599.6m£4,833
7Blackpool South£585.9m£5,255
8Birmingham Erdington£585.4m£4,697
9Birmingham Ladywood£570.1m£3,519
10Boston and Skegness£569.3m£4,842
11Birkenhead£548.1m£5,079
12Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£538.4m£3,923
13Clwyd North£537.7m£5,340
14Glasgow North East£536.3m£4,736Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15East Thanet£535.2m£5,095
16Liverpool Walton£534.8m£5,216
17Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£529.8m£4,445
18Liverpool Riverside£529.5m£4,156
19Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£528.4m£4,251
20Hackney North and Stoke Newington£528.4m£4,483
21Southgate and Wood Green£526.4m£4,127
22Torbay£523.7m£5,012
23Bolton South and Walkden£520.4m£4,055
24Swansea West£519.0m£4,662
25Wolverhampton South East£518.9m£4,128
26Bootle£517.8m£5,025
27Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£515.1m£4,777
28Birmingham Perry Barr£514.9m£4,124
29Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£513.1m£4,513
30Hastings and Rye£510.1m£4,853
31Walsall and Bloxwich£508.9m£4,175
32Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£508.5m£5,336
33Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£507.5m£4,685
34Peterborough£505.0m£3,831
35Louth and Horncastle£504.5m£5,121
36Rhondda and Ogmore£502.9m£4,987
37Great Yarmouth£501.0m£4,999
38Aberafan Maesteg£500.9m£5,431
39Blackley and Middleton South£498.9m£4,363
40Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£498.7m£4,983
41Birmingham Northfield£498.6m£4,597
42Eastbourne£498.3m£4,798
43Croydon West£497.9m£3,874
44Houghton and Sunderland South£497.2m£4,774
45Coventry East£495.8m£4,057
46Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend£495.7m£4,214
47Bolton North East£494.2m£4,207
48Easington£494.0m£5,180
49Erith and Thamesmead£493.5m£3,596
50Blyth and Ashington£492.2m£4,731

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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