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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

Money for people whose illness or disability limits how much they can work. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £205
  2. £205 to £284
  3. £284 to £363
  4. £363 to £442
  5. £442 to £521
  6. £521 and over
Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 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 641632Glasgow North East 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Liverpool Walton 3Rhondda and Ogmore 4Aberafan Maesteg 5Glasgow East 6Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 7West Dunbartonshire 8Birkenhead 9Knowsley 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Employment and Support Allowance: 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.

£11.7bnFebruary 2023+£85.8mPopulation−£5.7bnShare claiming−£1.0bnPayment size£5.1bnMarch 2026
What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023£11.7bn
Population+£85.8m
Share claiming−£5.7bn
Payment size−£1.0bn
March 2026£5.1bn
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.

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 Employment and Support Allowance, 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Glasgow North East£63.4m£560£789
2Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£44.0m£462£747
3Liverpool Walton£45.4m£443£697
4Rhondda and Ogmore£43.2m£428£691
5Aberafan Maesteg£38.4m£417£689
6Glasgow East£48.4m£469£668
7Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£40.2m£402£654
8West Dunbartonshire£37.0m£404£645
9Birkenhead£41.3m£383£613
10Knowsley£37.5m£386£612
11Blackpool South£42.7m£383£612
12Liverpool West Derby£38.4m£384£608
13Glasgow South West£41.3m£413£604
14Bootle£39.0m£379£597
15Glasgow West£40.8m£403£574
16Llanelli£31.7m£333£561
17Easington£32.7m£343£556
18Coatbridge and Bellshill£34.2m£360£553
19Glenrothes and Mid Fife£31.4m£338£552
20Liverpool Riverside£53.5m£420£548
21North Ayrshire and Arran£29.2m£321£543
22Nottingham North and Kimberley£36.7m£336£542
23Clwyd North£31.2m£310£542
24Wallasey£31.7m£325£538
25Caerphilly£31.8m£329£538
26Paisley and Renfrewshire South£33.1m£350£537
27Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£33.3m£341£536
28Neath and Swansea East£33.7m£333£534
29Glasgow South£33.7m£367£531
30Liverpool Garston£30.5m£320£531
31Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£38.1m£335£530
32Airdrie and Shotts£32.0m£342£529
33Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£29.2m£324£527
34Blackley and Middleton South£37.1m£325£520
35Swansea West£38.1m£342£514
36Dundee Central£37.2m£348£510
37Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£26.8m£298£506
38Kingston upon Hull East£32.3m£311£504
39Pontypridd£33.0m£315£499
40Dumfries and Galloway£27.6m£287£498
41Torbay£30.1m£288£496
42Wythenshawe and Sale East£35.2m£308£494
43Torfaen£27.9m£299£493
44Glasgow North£42.8m£378£492
45Sheffield Heeley£34.0m£311£491
46Redcar£27.4m£289£489
47Paisley and Renfrewshire North£29.7m£310£487
48Normanton and Hemsworth£31.5m£297£484
49Isle of Wight East£18.2m£263£483
50Central Ayrshire£25.6m£286£481

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, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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