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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

Disability Living Allowance for children, and for adults who claimed it before Personal Independence Payment began. In Scotland, Child Disability Payment replaces it for children. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £88
  2. £88 to £111
  3. £111 to £134
  4. £134 to £157
  5. £157 to £180
  6. £180 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 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

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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 per resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Aberafan Maesteg 2West Dunbartonshire 3Clacton 4Rhondda and Ogmore 5Wallasey 6Liverpool West Derby 7Birkenhead 8Knowsley 9Bootle 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Disability Living Allowance and Child 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.

£6.0bnFebruary 2023+£81.5mPopulation+£955.2mShare claiming+£1.4bnPayment size£8.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023£6.0bn
Population+£81.5m
Share claiming+£955.2m
Payment size+£1.4bn
March 2026£8.4bn
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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per resident, 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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£25.2m£246
2Aberafan Maesteg£21.6m£234
3West Dunbartonshire£20.2m£220Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Clacton£22.1m£217
5Rhondda and Ogmore£21.7m£216
6Wallasey£20.7m£213
7Liverpool West Derby£21.2m£212
8Birkenhead£22.6m£209
9Knowsley£20.3m£209
10Bootle£21.5m£209
11Glasgow South£19.1m£208Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£20.5m£205
13Glasgow West£20.7m£204Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Easington£19.3m£202
15Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£19.2m£202
16Glasgow East£20.8m£202Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Coatbridge and Bellshill£19.2m£201Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Glasgow North£22.8m£201Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Glasgow South West£20.1m£201Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Airdrie and Shotts£18.8m£201Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£19.5m£200Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Glasgow North East£22.3m£197Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£17.7m£197Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24North Ayrshire and Arran£17.6m£193Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Barnsley South£20.6m£193
26Hamilton and Clyde Valley£18.8m£193Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Kingston upon Hull East£20.0m£192
28Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£21.8m£192
29Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£17.6m£191Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30Liverpool Garston£18.2m£191
31East Kilbride and Strathaven£18.5m£190Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Rutherglen£18.1m£190Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Normanton and Hemsworth£20.0m£189
34Plymouth Moor View£19.0m£187
35Kilmarnock and Loudoun£17.8m£186Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£17.7m£185
37Blackpool South£20.6m£185
38Llanelli£17.5m£184
39Houghton and Sunderland South£19.1m£183
40Neath and Swansea East£18.3m£181
41Washington and Gateshead South£17.3m£181
42Sittingbourne and Sheppey£20.6m£179
43Blackpool North and Fleetwood£17.3m£179
44Clwyd North£17.9m£178
45Midlothian£17.4m£177Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46Barnsley North£18.9m£177
47Bathgate and Linlithgow£16.7m£176Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Rotherham£19.7m£175
49East Thanet£18.4m£175
50Dumfries and Galloway£16.8m£175Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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