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Brent East has the highest total benefit spending in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Skipton and Ripon: £453.6m total, 2024-25, 374th of 631 constituencies.

Total, low to high

  1. Under £389.7m
  2. £389.7m to £442.6m
  3. £442.6m to £495.4m
  4. £495.4m to £548.2m
  5. £548.2m to £601.1m
  6. £601.1m and over
  • Estimated value
Benefit spending, 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 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1631Clacton 1Blackpool South 9Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 16Brent East 31Enfield North 34Queen's Park and Maida Vale 36Boston and Skegness 40Birmingham Erdington 44Tottenham 57Skipton and Ripon 295Birmingham Ladywood 390

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Skipton and Ripon, 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
£267.3mFebruary 2023+£5.6mPopulation+£15.6mShare claiming+£38.1mPayment size£326.6mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£267.3m
Population+£5.6m
Share claiming+£15.6m
Payment size+£38.1m
March 2026£326.6m
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.

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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, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Brent East£791.3m£5,770
2Tottenham£765.7m£5,531
3Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£737.7m£5,897
4Enfield North£730.4m£5,728
5Clacton£711.9m£6,911
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£711.1m£5,704
7Birmingham Erdington£710.9m£5,635
8Birmingham Ladywood£708.2m£4,243
9Blackpool South£692.4m£6,149
10Boston and Skegness£669.6m£5,689
11Hackney North and Stoke Newington£658.6m£5,609
12Birkenhead£656.6m£5,981
13Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£656.5m£5,234
14Liverpool Walton£652.3m£6,368
15Liverpool Riverside£643.9m£4,892
16Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£643.2m£4,578
17Glasgow North East£640.9m£5,569Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Birmingham Perry Barr£636.9m£5,083
19East Thanet£634.7m£5,974
20Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£633.0m£5,488
21Clwyd North£631.5m£6,232
22Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£626.6m£5,170
23Bolton South and Walkden£626.5m£4,802
24Southgate and Wood Green£624.4m£4,890
25Bootle£621.7m£5,963
26Walsall and Bloxwich£620.5m£4,961
27Wolverhampton South East£619.1m£4,824
28Torbay£609.4m£5,819
29Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£608.6m£5,619
30Swansea West£608.3m£5,392
31Peterborough£605.2m£4,563
32Blackley and Middleton South£604.3m£5,238
33Birmingham Northfield£601.1m£5,496
34Hastings and Rye£599.0m£5,694
35Ealing North£598.4m£4,450
36Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£597.3m£6,247
37Rotherham£596.8m£5,198
38Erith and Thamesmead£596.1m£4,270
39Leeds South£594.9m£4,501
40Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£594.1m£5,446
41Houghton and Sunderland South£594.0m£5,598
42Coventry East£592.9m£4,731
43Easington£592.6m£6,161
44West Ham and Beckton£591.9m£4,001
45Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend£590.6m£4,921
46Rhondda and Ogmore£590.2m£5,832
47Liverpool West Derby£590.0m£5,833
48Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£589.4m£5,863
49Derby South£588.2m£4,691
50Lewisham East£587.9m£4,988

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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