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Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £267
£267 to £358
£358 to £450
£450 to £542
£542 to £633
£633 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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.

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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.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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.

What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£21.8bn
Population	+£297.9m
Share claiming	+£7.0bn
Payment size	+£1.3bn
July 2026	£30.5bn

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.

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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£88.6m	£930
2	Aberafan Maesteg	£82.9m	£899
3	Liverpool Walton	£92.1m	£898
4	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£86.2m	£861
5	Easington	£79.4m	£833
6	Rhondda and Ogmore	£83.9m	£832
7	Knowsley	£80.4m	£828
8	Birkenhead	£82.4m	£764
9	Bootle	£78.6m	£763
10	Liverpool West Derby	£75.4m	£755
11	Caerphilly	£71.4m	£739
12	Neath and Swansea East	£74.7m	£738
13	Blackpool South	£81.0m	£726
14	Torfaen	£67.8m	£725
15	Llanelli	£69.0m	£724
16	Clwyd North	£72.7m	£722
17	Swansea West	£80.0m	£718
18	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£66.7m	£701	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19	Dundee Central	£74.6m	£700	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20	Airdrie and Shotts	£65.4m	£698	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21	Hartlepool	£66.9m	£697
22	Wallasey	£67.4m	£692
23	Liverpool Riverside	£87.3m	£685
24	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£61.3m	£682	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25	West Dunbartonshire	£62.3m	£680	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£65.8m	£674	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27	Glasgow South	£61.9m	£673	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28	Barnsley South	£71.7m	£672
29	Houghton and Sunderland South	£69.5m	£667
30	North Ayrshire and Arran	£60.3m	£664	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31	Glasgow West	£67.1m	£662	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£74.5m	£655
33	Glasgow East	£67.5m	£654	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
34	Glasgow North	£73.8m	£653	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Glasgow South West	£65.1m	£651	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£59.7m	£649	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
37	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£62.1m	£649
38	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£70.7m	£648
39	Birmingham Erdington	£79.9m	£641
40	Glasgow North East	£72.5m	£640	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£76.2m	£640
42	Liverpool Garston	£60.9m	£639
43	Blyth and Ashington	£66.1m	£635
44	Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor	£61.9m	£634
45	Washington and Gateshead South	£60.6m	£634
46	Pontypridd	£66.2m	£633
47	South Shields	£56.6m	£631
48	St Helens South and Whiston	£60.2m	£622
49	Redcar	£58.9m	£622
50	Sunderland Central	£63.6m	£621

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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