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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Birmingham Erdington: £167 per resident, 2024-25, 105th of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £98
  2. £98 to £122
  3. £122 to £146
  4. £146 to £171
  5. £171 to £195
  6. £195 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 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

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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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Aberafan Maesteg 2West Dunbartonshire 3Birkenhead 4Clacton 5Wallasey 6Knowsley 7Bootle 8Liverpool West Derby 9Rhondda and Ogmore 10Birmingham Erdington 105

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Birmingham Erdington, 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.

£15.8mFebruary 2023+£0.24mPopulation+£3.5mShare claiming+£3.8mPayment size£23.3mMarch 2026
What changed: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023£15.8m
Population+£0.24m
Share claiming+£3.5m
Payment size+£3.8m
March 2026£23.3m
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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£28.5m£278
2Aberafan Maesteg£22.8m£246
3West Dunbartonshire£21.9m£239Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Birkenhead£26.1m£238
5Clacton£24.5m£237
6Wallasey£23.1m£235
7Knowsley£23.2m£234
8Bootle£24.4m£234
9Liverpool West Derby£23.6m£233
10Rhondda and Ogmore£22.8m£226
11Easington£21.6m£225
12Glasgow South£20.7m£222Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13Glasgow West£22.4m£220Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£22.0m£218
15Coatbridge and Bellshill£20.9m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Airdrie and Shotts£20.5m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£21.2m£217Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£25.0m£217
19Kingston upon Hull East£22.6m£217
20Liverpool Garston£20.4m£215
21Glasgow North£24.7m£215Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Glasgow South West£21.8m£215Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Glasgow East£22.6m£214Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£19.1m£212Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Glasgow North East£24.3m£211Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26North Ayrshire and Arran£19.2m£211Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£20.1m£210
28Hamilton and Clyde Valley£20.6m£209Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Barnsley South£22.4m£207
30Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£19.2m£207Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31East Kilbride and Strathaven£20.2m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Rutherglen£19.8m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Plymouth Moor View£20.9m£206
34Sittingbourne and Sheppey£23.9m£205
35Washington and Gateshead South£19.7m£204
36Normanton and Hemsworth£21.6m£202
37Kilmarnock and Loudoun£19.5m£202Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£19.4m£201
39East Thanet£21.1m£199
40Birmingham Northfield£21.7m£198
41Blackpool South£22.3m£198
42Houghton and Sunderland South£20.9m£197
43Sheffield Heeley£21.8m£196
44Midlothian£19.5m£196Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Llanelli£18.6m£195
46Wythenshawe and Sale East£22.3m£195
47Bathgate and Linlithgow£18.6m£194Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Barnsley North£20.7m£192
48Clwyd North£19.5m£192
50Blackley and Middleton South£22.1m£192

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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