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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has the highest spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £69
  2. £69 to £93
  3. £93 to £117
  4. £117 to £142
  5. £142 to £166
  6. £166 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per person aged 16 to 64, 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 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 1Bradford West 2Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 3Easington 4Bradford East 5Aberafan Maesteg 6Walsall and Bloxwich 7Rotherham 8Liverpool Walton 9Hartlepool 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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.

£3.1bnFebruary 2023+£41.9mPopulation+£531.9mShare claiming+£649.7mPayment size£4.3bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.1bn
Population+£41.9m
Share claiming+£531.9m
Payment size+£649.7m
March 2026£4.3bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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 Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£17.8m£157£248
2Bradford West£18.9m£151£232
3Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£17.5m£141£227
4Easington£12.8m£134£218
5Bradford East£16.9m£138£216
6Aberafan Maesteg£12.0m£130£215
7Walsall and Bloxwich£15.7m£129£206
8Rotherham£14.4m£128£204
9Liverpool Walton£13.1m£127£200
10Hartlepool£11.8m£123£200
11Knowsley£11.9m£123£195
12Clacton£10.4m£103£193
13Houghton and Sunderland South£12.1m£116£190
14Tipton and Wednesbury£13.8m£119£190
15Birmingham Yardley£13.7m£118£187
15Bradford South£13.0m£117£187
17Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£14.2m£119£185
18Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£10.9m£115£185
19Barnsley South£12.3m£115£185
20Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£11.3m£113£183
21Wolverhampton South East£14.4m£114£183
22Washington and Gateshead South£10.6m£111£183
23Blyth and Ashington£11.5m£111£183
24Rhondda and Ogmore£11.4m£113£182
25Derby South£14.1m£115£178
26Stockton North£11.5m£111£178
27Blackpool South£12.4m£111£177
28Birkenhead£11.9m£110£177
29Redcar£9.8m£104£175
30Clwyd North£10.1m£100£175
31Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£11.5m£107£174
32Birmingham Northfield£11.6m£107£174
33Bootle£11.3m£110£174
34Liverpool West Derby£10.9m£109£173
35Jarrow and Gateshead East£10.2m£106£173
36South Shields£9.3m£103£172
37Blackburn£12.5m£107£171
38Kingston upon Hull East£10.9m£105£170
39Sheffield South East£11.2m£106£170
40Great Yarmouth£9.9m£99£170
41Bishop Auckland£9.4m£100£169
42Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£13.0m£109£169
43East Thanet£10.4m£99£168
44Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor£9.9m£102£167
45Dudley£10.6m£103£167
46Nottingham North and Kimberley£11.2m£103£166
47Bolton South and Walkden£13.3m£103£165
48Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£9.6m£101£165
49Wallasey£9.7m£99£164
50Birmingham Erdington£13.1m£105£164

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 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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