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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has the highest spending on Income Support per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

An older benefit for people on a low income. Universal Credit has mostly replaced it. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Income Support, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £11
  2. £11 to £16
  3. £16 to £22
  4. £22 to £27
  5. £27 to £33
  6. £33 and over
Spending on Income Support, per person aged 16 to 64, 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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 1Liverpool Walton 2Glasgow North East 3Sheffield Heeley 4Tipton and Wednesbury 5Aberafan Maesteg 6Middlesbrough and Thornaby East 7Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North 8Walsall and Bloxwich 9Nottingham North and Kimberley 10

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?

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 Income Support, 2023-24. 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 Income Support for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£4.2m£37£58
2Liverpool Walton£3.3m£32£50
3Glasgow North East£3.9m£34£48
4Sheffield Heeley£3.1m£28£44
5Tipton and Wednesbury£3.2m£28£44
6Aberafan Maesteg£2.4m£26£44
7Middlesbrough and Thornaby East£3.3m£28£44
8Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£3.3m£27£43
9Walsall and Bloxwich£3.0m£25£40
10Nottingham North and Kimberley£2.7m£24£39
11Rhondda and Ogmore£2.5m£24£39
12Birmingham Northfield£2.6m£24£39
13Kingston upon Hull East£2.5m£24£39
14Birkenhead£2.6m£24£39
15Jarrow and Gateshead East£2.3m£24£38
16Glenrothes and Mid Fife£2.2m£23£38
17South Shields£2.1m£23£38
18Blyth and Ashington£2.4m£23£38
19Redcar£2.1m£22£37
20Sheffield South East£2.4m£23£37
21Knowsley£2.3m£23£37
22Liverpool West Derby£2.3m£23£37
23Wolverhampton South East£2.9m£23£37
24Clwyd North£2.1m£21£36
25West Dunbartonshire£2.1m£22£36
26Liverpool Garston£2.0m£21£35
27Bradford South£2.4m£22£35
28Blackpool South£2.5m£22£35
29Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland£2.0m£21£35
30Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£2.1m£21£35
31Glasgow South West£2.4m£24£34
32Washington and Gateshead South£2.0m£21£34
33Birmingham Erdington£2.7m£22£34
34Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£2.2m£20£33
35Bootle£2.2m£21£33
36Stockton North£2.1m£21£33
37Sunderland Central£2.1m£21£33
38Easington£1.9m£20£33
39Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£1.9m£20£32
40Wolverhampton North East£2.2m£20£32
41Airdrie and Shotts£1.9m£21£32
42Leeds South£2.8m£22£32
43Bradford East£2.5m£20£32
44Plymouth Moor View£1.9m£19£31
45Glasgow East£2.3m£22£31
46Bishop Auckland£1.7m£18£31
47Bolton South and Walkden£2.5m£20£31
48Rotherham£2.2m£20£31
49Houghton and Sunderland South£2.0m£19£31
50Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor£1.8m£19£31

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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