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Glasgow North has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

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Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Leigh and Atherton: £733 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 266th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £588
  2. £588 to £685
  3. £685 to £782
  4. £782 to £879
  5. £879 to £976
  6. £976 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 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 per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Glasgow North 1Bethnal Green and Stepney 2Birmingham Ladywood 3Hartlepool 4Glasgow North East 5Glasgow East 6Coatbridge and Bellshill 7Airdrie and Shotts 8Manchester Rusholme 9Glasgow South West 10Leigh and Atherton 266

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Leigh and Atherton, Attendance Allowance and Pension Age 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.

£9.6mFebruary 2023+£0.20mPopulation+£5.2mShare claiming+£2.5mPayment size£17.5mMarch 2026
What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023£9.6m
Population+£0.20m
Share claiming+£5.2m
Payment size+£2.5m
March 2026£17.5m
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. 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 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 Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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 Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Glasgow North£17.2m£149£1,449Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
2Bethnal Green and Stepney£10.0m£74£1,271
3Birmingham Ladywood£11.0m£66£1,261
4Hartlepool£22.7m£231£1,237
5Glasgow North East£16.9m£147£1,188Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
6Glasgow East£15.7m£149£1,178Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
7Coatbridge and Bellshill£18.2m£190£1,135Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
8Airdrie and Shotts£17.8m£190£1,128Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
9Manchester Rusholme£6.9m£57£1,121
10Glasgow South West£15.2m£149£1,120Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
11Liverpool Riverside£13.2m£100£1,114
12Neath and Swansea East£21.7m£212£1,104
13Glasgow West£15.6m£153£1,098Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Swansea West£18.9m£167£1,057
15Glasgow South£14.4m£155£1,047Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Llanelli£21.7m£228£1,046
17Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£18.2m£186£1,036Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Liverpool Walton£16.5m£161£1,032
19Aberafan Maesteg£19.0m£205£1,028
20Smethwick£14.8m£124£1,021
21Birmingham Perry Barr£13.0m£104£1,011
22Newport East£17.5m£150£1,009
23Whitehaven and Workington£20.7m£218£997
24Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£17.4m£188£994Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Bradford East£12.3m£99£990
26Knowsley£15.4m£155£981
27Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£17.9m£188£977
28Clwyd North£23.7m£234£972
29Liverpool West Derby£16.3m£162£971
30West Dunbartonshire£17.3m£189£970Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Bradford West£12.0m£95£970
32Newport West and Islwyn£18.9m£183£966
33Stratford and Bow£8.5m£62£965
34St Helens South and Whiston£17.4m£177£951
35Clacton£29.6m£288£950
36Na h-Eileanan an Iar£6.4m£246£950Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
37Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£13.8m£110£947
38Cardiff South and Penarth£12.8m£114£945
39Rhondda and Ogmore£18.0m£178£944
40Birmingham Yardley£12.8m£108£942
41Caerphilly£17.7m£183£938
42Dundee Central£15.7m£148£934Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£16.7m£119£934
44Bootle£16.0m£154£933
45Torfaen£17.5m£185£929
46Bridgend£18.8m£194£928
47Sunderland Central£17.8m£170£928
48Poplar and Limehouse£6.5m£43£925
49Tipton and Wednesbury£15.5m£132£924
50Jarrow and Gateshead East£16.8m£174£923

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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