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Clacton has the highest total spending on State Pension in 2024-25.

The State Pension, paid from State Pension age. It includes the new State Pension and the older basic and additional pensions. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on State Pension, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £130.6m
  2. £130.6m to £169.8m
  3. £169.8m to £208.9m
  4. £208.9m to £248.0m
  5. £248.0m to £287.1m
  6. £287.1m and over
Spending on State Pension, 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

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1631Arundel and South Downs 150Chichester 168Christchurch 206Clacton 270Bexhill and Battle 278Louth and Horncastle 331Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 349North Norfolk 412South Shropshire 470West Dorset 474

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, 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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

£119.8bnFebruary 2023+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£16.3bnPayment size£143.9bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£119.8bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
Payment size+£16.3bn
March 2026£143.9bn
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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI 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 State Pension, 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 State Pension for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£362.6m£3,520£11,632
2Christchurch£349.3m£3,957£11,687
3West Dorset£346.7m£3,599£11,377
4Louth and Horncastle£342.2m£3,471£11,570
5North Norfolk£338.9m£3,898£11,473
6Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£334.5m£3,067£11,548
7Arundel and South Downs£331.2m£3,340£11,741
8South Shropshire£330.3m£3,426£11,386
9Chichester£329.1m£3,007£11,723
10Bexhill and Battle£329.0m£3,565£11,624
11Honiton and Sidmouth£329.0m£3,512£11,305
12West Worcestershire£328.5m£3,204£11,635
13New Forest West£328.4m£3,862£11,708
14Suffolk Coastal£324.9m£3,408£11,473
15Boston and Skegness£319.3m£2,713£11,433
16Torridge and Tavistock£315.5m£3,231£11,376
17Bridlington and The Wolds£314.7m£3,304£11,322
18Fylde£313.8m£3,094£11,233
19Thirsk and Malton£313.2m£3,137£11,488
20Skipton and Ripon£312.5m£3,117£11,590
21Lewes£312.3m£3,207£11,729
22Herne Bay and Sandwich£312.3m£3,046£11,504
23North Northumberland£312.1m£3,327£11,417
24South Holland and The Deepings£307.4m£2,690£11,644
25South Dorset£305.6m£3,038£11,357
26Worthing West£304.8m£2,963£11,427
27Stratford-on-Avon£304.4m£2,971£11,733
28North West Norfolk£304.0m£2,942£11,403
29South Devon£303.7m£3,291£11,281
30Waveney Valley£302.5m£3,312£11,488
31Mid Dorset and North Poole£301.7m£3,087£11,926
32North Herefordshire£301.6m£3,251£11,434
33Tiverton and Minehead£298.0m£3,202£11,379
34North Dorset£297.8m£3,111£11,683
35Sefton Central£297.6m£3,188£11,931
36Morecambe and Lunesdale£296.8m£2,974£11,619
37Hexham£295.4m£3,067£11,522
38Maldon£294.6m£2,853£11,962
39Penrith and Solway£294.0m£2,951£11,480
40Wyre Forest£293.6m£2,825£11,691
41Newark£292.3m£2,659£11,572
42Torbay£291.5m£2,784£11,114
43Angus and Perthshire Glens£290.3m£2,928£11,549
44North Devon£290.3m£2,868£11,448
45North Cornwall£289.9m£2,876£11,208
46South East Cornwall£289.8m£3,115£11,127
47Broadland and Fakenham£289.6m£2,983£11,507
48Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk£289.5m£2,995£11,483
49North Shropshire£289.3m£2,802£11,557
50Newton Abbot£289.3m£3,047£11,543

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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