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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

Money for people whose illness or disability limits how much they can work. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £215
  2. £215 to £296
  3. £296 to £377
  4. £377 to £458
  5. £458 to £539
  6. £539 and over
Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Glasgow North East 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Liverpool Walton 3Rhondda and Ogmore 4Aberafan Maesteg 5Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 6Glasgow East 7West Dunbartonshire 8Blackpool South 9Knowsley 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Employment and Support Allowance: 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.

£13.4bnFebruary 2023+£93.6mPopulation−£6.2bnShare claiming−£2.1bnPayment size£5.2bnMarch 2026
What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023£13.4bn
Population+£93.6m
Share claiming−£6.2bn
Payment size−£2.1bn
March 2026£5.2bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Glasgow North East£66.1m£574£809
2Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£46.7m£488£790
3Liverpool Walton£48.0m£468£742
4Rhondda and Ogmore£45.4m£449£724
5Aberafan Maesteg£40.7m£438£722
6Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£42.4m£421£686
7Glasgow East£50.6m£479£683
8West Dunbartonshire£38.4m£419£672
9Blackpool South£44.8m£398£636
10Knowsley£39.5m£399£634
11Liverpool West Derby£40.2m£397£631
12Birkenhead£43.4m£395£630
13Bootle£41.1m£395£624
14Glasgow South West£43.0m£423£618
15Llanelli£34.0m£356£599
16Easington£34.8m£362£590
17Glasgow West£42.2m£413£588
18Coatbridge and Bellshill£36.2m£379£584
19North Ayrshire and Arran£31.2m£343£583
20Glenrothes and Mid Fife£33.2m£356£582
21Clwyd North£33.5m£330£577
22Caerphilly£34.0m£351£572
23Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£31.5m£350£572
24Liverpool Garston£32.3m£341£569
25Wallasey£33.7m£343£568
26Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£35.1m£359£566
27Paisley and Renfrewshire South£35.1m£367£566
28Nottingham North and Kimberley£38.4m£349£562
29Neath and Swansea East£35.7m£350£559
30Airdrie and Shotts£33.4m£355£552
31Liverpool Riverside£55.7m£423£551
32Glasgow South£35.5m£381£551
33Dundee Central£39.3m£372£548
34Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£39.4m£342£537
35Blackley and Middleton South£38.4m£333£534
36Dumfries and Galloway£29.5m£306£533
37Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£28.2m£312£533
38Swansea West£39.6m£351£527
39Kingston upon Hull East£33.8m£324£527
40Torbay£31.9m£305£525
41Pontypridd£34.7m£331£523
42Torfaen£29.7m£316£522
43Central Ayrshire£27.3m£305£517
44Normanton and Hemsworth£33.7m£315£515
45Wythenshawe and Sale East£36.5m£320£514
46Isle of Wight East£19.2m£277£511
47Glasgow North£45.1m£392£509
48Redcar£28.7m£300£509
49Paisley and Renfrewshire North£31.1m£321£507
50Sheffield Heeley£35.4m£318£501

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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