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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Disability Living Allowance for children, and for adults who claimed it before Personal Independence Payment began. In Scotland, Child Disability Payment replaces it for children. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £104
  2. £104 to £129
  3. £129 to £155
  4. £155 to £181
  5. £181 to £206
  6. £206 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 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 per resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Aberafan Maesteg 2West Dunbartonshire 3Birkenhead 4Clacton 5Wallasey 6Knowsley 7Bootle 8Liverpool West Derby 9Rhondda and Ogmore 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment: 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.

£6.8bnFebruary 2023+£88.1mPopulation+£1.0bnShare claiming+£608.8mPayment size£8.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023£6.8bn
Population+£88.1m
Share claiming+£1.0bn
Payment size+£608.8m
March 2026£8.6bn
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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£30.2m£295
2Aberafan Maesteg£24.2m£260
3West Dunbartonshire£23.2m£253Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Birkenhead£27.7m£252
5Clacton£25.9m£251
6Wallasey£24.5m£249
7Knowsley£24.6m£248
8Bootle£25.8m£247
9Liverpool West Derby£25.0m£247
10Rhondda and Ogmore£24.2m£239
11Easington£22.9m£238
12Glasgow South£21.9m£236Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13Glasgow West£23.8m£233Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£23.2m£231
15Coatbridge and Bellshill£22.1m£231Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Airdrie and Shotts£21.7m£230Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£22.5m£230Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£26.5m£230
19Kingston upon Hull East£23.9m£229
20Liverpool Garston£21.6m£228
21Glasgow North£26.2m£227Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Glasgow South West£23.1m£227Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Glasgow East£23.9m£227Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£20.2m£224Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Glasgow North East£25.7m£223Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26North Ayrshire and Arran£20.3m£223Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£21.3m£223
28Hamilton and Clyde Valley£21.8m£222Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Barnsley South£23.7m£220
30Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£20.3m£219Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31East Kilbride and Strathaven£21.4m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Rutherglen£20.9m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Plymouth Moor View£22.2m£218
34Sittingbourne and Sheppey£25.3m£217
35Washington and Gateshead South£20.9m£216
36Normanton and Hemsworth£22.9m£214
37Kilmarnock and Loudoun£20.6m£214Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£20.6m£213
39East Thanet£22.4m£210
40Birmingham Northfield£23.0m£210
41Blackpool South£23.7m£210
42Houghton and Sunderland South£22.1m£208
43Sheffield Heeley£23.1m£208
44Midlothian£20.7m£207Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Llanelli£19.7m£207
46Wythenshawe and Sale East£23.6m£206
47Bathgate and Linlithgow£19.6m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Barnsley North£21.9m£203
48Clwyd North£20.6m£203
50Blackley and Middleton South£23.4m£203

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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