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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber: £462 per resident, 2024-25, 241st of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £292
  2. £292 to £388
  3. £388 to £485
  4. £485 to £582
  5. £582 to £679
  6. £679 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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

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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Easington 4Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 5Knowsley 6Rhondda and Ogmore 7Bootle 8Birkenhead 9Liverpool West Derby 10Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber 241

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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.

£20.1bnJuly 2023+£286.9mPopulation+£6.8bnShare claiming+£3.3bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£20.1bn
Population+£286.9m
Share claiming+£6.8bn
Payment size+£3.3bn
July 2026£30.5bn
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. Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber has no figures for this benefit, so Great Britain is shown.

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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£101.8m£994
2Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£93.5m£978
3Aberafan Maesteg£87.7m£944
4Easington£87.3m£907
5Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£90.8m£903
6Knowsley£88.8m£896
7Rhondda and Ogmore£88.6m£876
8Bootle£86.9m£833
9Birkenhead£89.9m£819
10Liverpool West Derby£82.6m£817
11Blackpool South£90.1m£800
12Caerphilly£76.4m£787
13Neath and Swansea East£79.2m£776
14Llanelli£74.0m£775
15Torfaen£72.1m£766
16Clwyd North£77.5m£764
17Wallasey£74.5m£758
18Swansea West£85.5m£758
19Hartlepool£74.0m£753
20West Dunbartonshire£68.3m£745Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Coatbridge and Bellshill£70.4m£737Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Airdrie and Shotts£69.0m£734Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£84.6m£734
24Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£66.0m£733Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Dundee Central£77.2m£732Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26Barnsley South£78.6m£729
27Liverpool Riverside£95.6m£726
28Houghton and Sunderland South£76.9m£725
29North Ayrshire and Arran£65.7m£723Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30Glasgow South£66.5m£715Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£69.5m£711Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Liverpool Garston£67.0m£707
33Glasgow West£72.1m£707Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
34Jarrow and Gateshead East£67.1m£696
35Washington and Gateshead South£67.0m£695
36Nottingham North and Kimberley£76.0m£691
37Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor£68.1m£691
38Blyth and Ashington£73.2m£691
39Glasgow North£79.4m£690Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Glasgow South West£70.0m£690Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Glasgow East£72.6m£688Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42Rotherham£78.6m£685
43Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£63.3m£685Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£82.7m£683
45Birmingham Erdington£86.0m£682
46South Shields£61.4m£680
47Glasgow North East£78.0m£678Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48St Helens South and Whiston£66.4m£676
49Barnsley North£72.8m£676
50Redcar£64.4m£674

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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