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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected North Cornwall: £322 per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 235th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £203
  2. £203 to £280
  3. £280 to £356
  4. £356 to £433
  5. £433 to £509
  6. £509 and over
Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 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 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Glasgow North East 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Liverpool Walton 3Rhondda and Ogmore 4Aberafan Maesteg 5Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 6Glasgow East 7West Dunbartonshire 8Blackpool South 9Knowsley 10North Cornwall 235

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

North Cornwall, 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.

£17.4mFebruary 2023−£0.02mPopulation−£7.0mShare claiming−£1.6mPayment size£8.7mMarch 2026
What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023£17.4m
Population−£0.02m
Share claiming−£7.0m
Payment size−£1.6m
March 2026£8.7m
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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Glasgow North East£62.4m£543£764
2Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£44.1m£461£746
3Liverpool Walton£45.3m£442£700
4Rhondda and Ogmore£42.9m£424£684
5Aberafan Maesteg£38.4m£414£682
6Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£40.0m£398£648
7Glasgow East£47.8m£453£645
8West Dunbartonshire£36.3m£396£635
9Blackpool South£42.3m£376£601
10Knowsley£37.3m£377£599
11Liverpool West Derby£37.9m£375£596
12Birkenhead£41.0m£373£595
13Bootle£38.9m£373£589
14Glasgow South West£40.6m£400£584
15Llanelli£32.1m£336£566
16Easington£32.9m£342£557
17Glasgow West£39.8m£390£555
18Coatbridge and Bellshill£34.2m£358£551
19North Ayrshire and Arran£29.5m£324£550
20Glenrothes and Mid Fife£31.3m£336£550
21Clwyd North£31.6m£312£545
22Caerphilly£32.2m£332£540
23Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£29.8m£330£540
24Liverpool Garston£30.5m£322£538
25Wallasey£31.9m£324£537
26Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£33.2m£339£535
27Paisley and Renfrewshire South£33.1m£347£535
28Nottingham North and Kimberley£36.2m£330£531
29Neath and Swansea East£33.8m£331£528
30Airdrie and Shotts£31.5m£335£521
31Liverpool Riverside£52.6m£400£521
32Glasgow South£33.5m£360£520
33Dundee Central£37.1m£351£517
34Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£37.2m£323£508
35Blackley and Middleton South£36.3m£314£504
36Dumfries and Galloway£27.8m£289£504
37Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£26.6m£295£504
38Swansea West£37.4m£332£498
39Kingston upon Hull East£31.9m£306£497
40Torbay£30.1m£288£496
41Pontypridd£32.7m£312£494
42Torfaen£28.1m£298£493
43Central Ayrshire£25.8m£288£488
44Normanton and Hemsworth£31.8m£298£487
45Wythenshawe and Sale East£34.5m£302£486
46Isle of Wight East£18.2m£262£483
47Glasgow North£42.6m£370£481
48Redcar£27.1m£284£480
49Paisley and Renfrewshire North£29.4m£304£478
50Sheffield Heeley£33.4m£301£473

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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