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Glasgow North East has the highest total spending on Employment and Support Allowance 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.

Total, low to high

Under £13.9m
£13.9m to £19.3m
£19.3m to £24.7m
£24.7m to £30.1m
£30.1m to £35.5m
£35.5m and over

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, total, 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 total 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 total, 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	Liverpool Riverside	£55.7m	£423	£551
3	Glasgow East	£50.6m	£479	£683
4	Liverpool Walton	£48.0m	£468	£742
5	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£46.7m	£488	£790
6	Rhondda and Ogmore	£45.4m	£449	£724
7	Glasgow North	£45.1m	£392	£509
8	Blackpool South	£44.8m	£398	£636
9	Birkenhead	£43.4m	£395	£630
10	Glasgow South West	£43.0m	£423	£618
11	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£42.4m	£421	£686
12	Glasgow West	£42.2m	£413	£588
13	Bootle	£41.1m	£395	£624
14	Aberafan Maesteg	£40.7m	£438	£722
15	Liverpool West Derby	£40.2m	£397	£631
16	Swansea West	£39.6m	£351	£527
17	Knowsley	£39.5m	£399	£634
18	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£39.4m	£342	£537
19	Dundee Central	£39.3m	£372	£548
20	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£38.8m	£311	£433
21	West Dunbartonshire	£38.4m	£419	£672
22	Blackley and Middleton South	£38.4m	£333	£534
23	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£38.4m	£349	£562
24	Birmingham Erdington	£38.3m	£304	£476
25	Islington South and Finsbury	£37.8m	£311	£404
26	Bolton South and Walkden	£37.7m	£289	£459
27	Holborn and St Pancras	£36.9m	£330	£430
28	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£36.5m	£320	£514
29	Leeds South	£36.4m	£276	£407
30	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£36.2m	£379	£584
31	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£36.1m	£298	£461
32	Tottenham	£36.0m	£260	£365
33	Neath and Swansea East	£35.7m	£350	£559
34	Salford	£35.6m	£256	£345
35	Glasgow South	£35.5m	£381	£551
36	Sheffield Heeley	£35.4m	£318	£501
37	Liverpool Wavertree	£35.3m	£327	£469
38	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£35.2m	£299	£384
39	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£35.1m	£359	£566
40	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£35.1m	£367	£566
41	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£34.9m	£300	£408
42	Nottingham East	£34.9m	£278	£377
43	Easington	£34.8m	£362	£590
44	Islington North	£34.8m	£314	£418
45	Pontypridd	£34.7m	£331	£523
46	Caerphilly	£34.0m	£351	£572
47	Llanelli	£34.0m	£356	£599
48	Kingston upon Hull East	£33.8m	£324	£527
49	Wallasey	£33.7m	£343	£568
50	Stoke-on-Trent Central	£33.7m	£282	£434

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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