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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on winter heating payments per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

A yearly payment to help people over State Pension age with heating costs. In Scotland, Pension Age Winter Heating Payment replaces Winter Fuel Payment. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Cardiff West: £34 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 175th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £24
  2. £24 to £35
  3. £35 to £46
  4. £46 to £57
  5. £57 to £68
  6. £68 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 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 66 and over are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Poplar and Limehouse 5Liverpool Riverside 6Tottenham 7Hackney North and Stoke Newington 8West Ham and Beckton 9Peckham 10Cardiff West 175

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Cardiff West, State Pension: 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.

Benefit
£144.7mFebruary 2023+£3.8mPopulation+£8.2mShare claiming+£41.0mPayment size£197.7mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£144.7m
Population+£3.8m
Share claiming+£8.2m
Payment size+£41.0m
March 2026£197.7m
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 66 and over. 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 pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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 Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£0.92m£6.87£118
2Birmingham Ladywood£0.98m£5.87£113
3Manchester Rusholme£0.65m£5.38£106
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£0.85m£7.17£98
5Poplar and Limehouse£0.65m£4.34£93
6Liverpool Riverside£1.1m£8.03£89
7Tottenham£1.0m£7.32£87
8Hackney North and Stoke Newington£0.85m£7.20£86
9West Ham and Beckton£0.83m£5.61£85
10Peckham£0.78m£6.96£85
11Stratford and Bow£0.72m£5.25£82
12Queen's Park and Maida Vale£1.1m£8.47£82
13East Ham£0.84m£6.17£81
14Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£0.75m£7.10£79
15Glasgow North£0.92m£8.02£78Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Holborn and St Pancras£0.86m£7.67£77
17Islington North£0.75m£6.79£75
18Bermondsey and Old Southwark£0.56m£5.10£75
19Clapham and Brixton Hill£0.58m£5.55£73
20Islington South and Finsbury£0.77m£6.34£72
21Lewisham North£0.60m£5.10£69
22Barking£0.67m£4.69£69
23Birmingham Perry Barr£0.88m£6.99£68
24Brent East£1.0m£7.32£66
25Manchester Central£0.68m£4.89£66
26Glasgow North East£0.91m£7.88£64Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Walthamstow£0.60m£4.84£63
28Glasgow East£0.84m£8.00£63Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Leicester East£1.1m£8.41£63
30Greenwich and Woolwich£0.59m£4.73£63
31Bradford West£0.78m£6.11£63
32Glasgow South West£0.81m£8.02£60Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Bradford East£0.74m£5.94£59
34Leicester South£0.72m£5.80£59
35Glasgow West£0.84m£8.22£59Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£0.81m£6.69£59
37Liverpool Walton£0.90m£8.77£56
38Glasgow South£0.77m£8.31£56Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39Smethwick£0.82m£6.82£56
40Knowsley£0.88m£8.91£56
41Croydon West£0.63m£4.74£56
42Ilford South£0.69m£4.96£56
43Salford£0.65m£4.66£55
44Walsall and Bloxwich£0.86m£6.89£55
45Birmingham Yardley£0.74m£6.25£54
46Kensington and Bayswater£0.92m£6.94£54
47Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£0.79m£6.30£54
48Nottingham East£0.58m£4.59£53
49Leeds South£0.66m£4.96£53
50Dulwich and West Norwood£0.57m£5.37£53

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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