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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per resident in 2024-25.

Money for people whose illness or disability limits how much they can work. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £136
£136 to £188
£188 to £241
£241 to £293
£293 to £345
£345 and over

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 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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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.

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023	£13.4bn
Population	+£93.6m
Share claiming	−£6.2bn
Payment size	−£2.1bn
March 2026	£5.2bn

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

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 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	£66.1m	£574	£809
2	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£46.7m	£488	£790
3	Glasgow East	£50.6m	£479	£683
4	Liverpool Walton	£48.0m	£468	£742
5	Rhondda and Ogmore	£45.4m	£449	£724
6	Aberafan Maesteg	£40.7m	£438	£722
7	Glasgow South West	£43.0m	£423	£618
8	Liverpool Riverside	£55.7m	£423	£551
9	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£42.4m	£421	£686
10	West Dunbartonshire	£38.4m	£419	£672
11	Glasgow West	£42.2m	£413	£588
12	Knowsley	£39.5m	£399	£634
13	Blackpool South	£44.8m	£398	£636
14	Liverpool West Derby	£40.2m	£397	£631
15	Birkenhead	£43.4m	£395	£630
16	Bootle	£41.1m	£395	£624
17	Glasgow North	£45.1m	£392	£509
18	Glasgow South	£35.5m	£381	£551
19	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£36.2m	£379	£584
20	Dundee Central	£39.3m	£372	£548
21	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£35.1m	£367	£566
22	Easington	£34.8m	£362	£590
23	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£35.1m	£359	£566
24	Llanelli	£34.0m	£356	£599
25	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£33.2m	£356	£582
26	Airdrie and Shotts	£33.4m	£355	£552
27	Caerphilly	£34.0m	£351	£572
28	Swansea West	£39.6m	£351	£527
29	Neath and Swansea East	£35.7m	£350	£559
30	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£31.5m	£350	£572
31	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£38.4m	£349	£562
32	Wallasey	£33.7m	£343	£568
33	North Ayrshire and Arran	£31.2m	£343	£583
34	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£39.4m	£342	£537
35	Liverpool Garston	£32.3m	£341	£569
36	Blackley and Middleton South	£38.4m	£333	£534
37	Pontypridd	£34.7m	£331	£523
38	Clwyd North	£33.5m	£330	£577
39	Holborn and St Pancras	£36.9m	£330	£430
40	Liverpool Wavertree	£35.3m	£327	£469
41	Kingston upon Hull East	£33.8m	£324	£527
42	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	£31.1m	£321	£507
43	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£36.5m	£320	£514
44	Sheffield Heeley	£35.4m	£318	£501
45	Torfaen	£29.7m	£316	£522
46	Normanton and Hemsworth	£33.7m	£315	£515
47	Islington North	£34.8m	£314	£418
48	St Helens South and Whiston	£30.7m	£312	£499
49	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£28.2m	£312	£533
50	Islington South and Finsbury	£37.8m	£311	£404

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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