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Brent East has the highest total benefit spending in 2023-24.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Benefit spending, total, 2023-24, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £356.2m
  2. £356.2m to £401.3m
  3. £401.3m to £446.4m
  4. £446.4m to £491.5m
  5. £491.5m to £536.6m
  6. £536.6m and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, total, 2023-24, 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 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Blackpool South 7Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 31Brent East 36Boston and Skegness 40Queen's Park and Maida Vale 41Enfield North 53Birmingham Erdington 61Tottenham 77Birmingham Ladywood 426

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.

Benefit
£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?

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.

Chart step
This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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

Benefit spending, 2023-24. 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Brent East£714.8m£5,268
2Tottenham£685.1m£4,955
3Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£669.3m£5,341
4Enfield North£657.2m£5,143
5Clacton£653.1m£6,421
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£649.8m£5,238
7Blackpool South£634.9m£5,695
8Birmingham Erdington£634.5m£5,091
9Birmingham Ladywood£617.8m£3,814
10Boston and Skegness£617.0m£5,247
11Birkenhead£594.0m£5,505
12Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£583.5m£4,251
13Clwyd North£582.7m£5,787
14Glasgow North East£581.2m£5,133Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15East Thanet£580.0m£5,521
16Liverpool Walton£579.6m£5,652
17Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£574.2m£4,817
18Liverpool Riverside£573.8m£4,504
19Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£572.6m£4,607
20Hackney North and Stoke Newington£572.6m£4,859
21Southgate and Wood Green£570.5m£4,473
22Torbay£567.6m£5,431
23Bolton South and Walkden£564.0m£4,394
24Swansea West£562.4m£5,052
25Wolverhampton South East£562.3m£4,474
26Bootle£561.1m£5,446
27Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£558.3m£5,177
28Birmingham Perry Barr£558.1m£4,470
29Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£556.1m£4,891
30Hastings and Rye£552.9m£5,260
31Walsall and Bloxwich£551.5m£4,525
32Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£551.0m£5,782
33Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£550.0m£5,077
34Peterborough£547.3m£4,152
35Louth and Horncastle£546.8m£5,550
36Rhondda and Ogmore£545.0m£5,404
37Great Yarmouth£542.9m£5,418
38Aberafan Maesteg£542.9m£5,886
39Blackley and Middleton South£540.6m£4,728
40Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£540.5m£5,400
41Birmingham Northfield£540.4m£4,982
42Eastbourne£540.0m£5,199
43Croydon West£539.6m£4,198
44Houghton and Sunderland South£538.9m£5,174
45Coventry East£537.3m£4,397
46Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend£537.2m£4,566
47Bolton North East£535.6m£4,560
48Easington£535.3m£5,614
49Erith and Thamesmead£534.9m£3,897
50Blyth and Ashington£533.4m£5,127

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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