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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

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, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £95
  2. £95 to £120
  3. £120 to £145
  4. £145 to £170
  5. £170 to £195
  6. £195 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 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 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 3Clacton 4Rhondda and Ogmore 5Wallasey 6Liverpool West Derby 7Birkenhead 8Knowsley 9Bootle 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, 2023-24. 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, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£27.3m£266
2Aberafan Maesteg£23.4m£254
3West Dunbartonshire£21.9m£238Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Clacton£23.9m£235
5Rhondda and Ogmore£23.6m£234
6Wallasey£22.5m£231
7Liverpool West Derby£22.9m£230
8Birkenhead£24.5m£227
9Knowsley£22.0m£227
10Bootle£23.3m£227
11Glasgow South£20.7m£225Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£22.2m£222
13Glasgow West£22.4m£221Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Easington£20.9m£219
15Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£20.9m£219
16Glasgow East£22.5m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Coatbridge and Bellshill£20.8m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Glasgow North£24.7m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Glasgow South West£21.7m£218Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Airdrie and Shotts£20.4m£217Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£21.1m£216Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Glasgow North East£24.2m£214Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£19.2m£213Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24North Ayrshire and Arran£19.0m£210Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Barnsley South£22.3m£209
26Hamilton and Clyde Valley£20.4m£209Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Kingston upon Hull East£21.7m£208
28Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£23.6m£208
29Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£19.1m£207Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30Liverpool Garston£19.7m£206
31East Kilbride and Strathaven£20.1m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Rutherglen£19.6m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Normanton and Hemsworth£21.7m£205
34Plymouth Moor View£20.6m£203
35Kilmarnock and Loudoun£19.3m£201Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£19.2m£201
37Blackpool South£22.3m£200
38Llanelli£19.0m£199
39Houghton and Sunderland South£20.7m£199
40Neath and Swansea East£19.9m£197
41Washington and Gateshead South£18.8m£196
42Sittingbourne and Sheppey£22.4m£194
43Blackpool North and Fleetwood£18.8m£194
44Clwyd North£19.4m£193
45Midlothian£18.9m£192Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46Barnsley North£20.5m£192
47Bathgate and Linlithgow£18.1m£191Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Rotherham£21.3m£190
49East Thanet£19.9m£190
50Dumfries and Galloway£18.2m£189Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

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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