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Liverpool Walton has the highest total spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment 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 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

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

Total, low to high

  1. Under £32.7m
  2. £32.7m to £44.1m
  3. £44.1m to £55.6m
  4. £55.6m to £67.0m
  5. £67.0m to £78.5m
  6. £78.5m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 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.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Aberafan Maesteg 3Easington 4Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 5Knowsley 6Rhondda and Ogmore 7Birkenhead 9Blackpool South 11Liverpool Riverside 27

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

£21.8bnJuly 2023+£297.9mPopulation+£7.0bnShare claiming+£1.3bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£21.8bn
Population+£297.9m
Share claiming+£7.0bn
Payment size+£1.3bn
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.

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI 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 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£107.8m£1,052
2Liverpool Riverside£101.2m£769
3Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£99.0m£1,035
4Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£96.1m£956
5Blackpool South£95.4m£847
6Birkenhead£95.2m£867
7Knowsley£94.0m£949
8Rhondda and Ogmore£93.8m£927
9Aberafan Maesteg£92.9m£1,000
10Easington£92.4m£960
11Bootle£92.0m£882
12Birmingham Erdington£91.1m£722
13Swansea West£90.5m£802
14Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£89.6m£777
15Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£87.6m£723
16Liverpool West Derby£87.5m£865
17Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£86.3m£688
18Glasgow North£84.1m£730Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Neath and Swansea East£83.8m£822
20Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£83.3m£593
21Barnsley South£83.3m£771
22Rotherham£83.3m£725
23Glasgow North East£82.6m£718Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24Birmingham Ladywood£82.3m£493
25Clwyd North£82.0m£809
26Bolton South and Walkden£82.0m£628
27Walsall and Bloxwich£82.0m£655
28Dundee Central£81.8m£775Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Houghton and Sunderland South£81.4m£767
30Caerphilly£80.8m£834
31Wolverhampton South East£80.6m£628
32Nottingham North and Kimberley£80.4m£732
33Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend£80.4m£670
34Tipton and Wednesbury£79.9m£680
35Wallasey£78.9m£803
36Newport East£78.8m£674
37Derby South£78.6m£627
38Blackley and Middleton South£78.5m£681
39Hartlepool£78.3m£798
40Llanelli£78.3m£820
41Bradford West£78.2m£616
42Blyth and Ashington£77.5m£731
43Barnsley North£77.1m£715
44Glasgow East£76.8m£728Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Birmingham Northfield£76.4m£699
46Glasgow West£76.4m£748Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
47Wythenshawe and Sale East£76.4m£669
48Coventry East£76.3m£609
49Torfaen£76.3m£811
50Stoke-on-Trent Central£75.2m£630

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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