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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on winter heating payments per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

A yearly payment to help people over State Pension age with heating costs. In Scotland, Pension Age Winter Heating Payment replaces Winter Fuel Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £418
  2. £418 to £435
  3. £435 to £452
  4. £452 to £469
  5. £469 to £487
  6. £487 and over
Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 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 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Birmingham Ladywood 1Manchester Rusholme 2Hackney South and Shoreditch 3Lewisham North 4Clapham and Brixton Hill 5Tottenham 6Bethnal Green and Stepney 7Bermondsey and Old Southwark 8Holborn and St Pancras 9Queen's Park and Maida Vale 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 pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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 Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£4.7m£29£542Boundary or method change
2Manchester Rusholme£3.2m£27£533Boundary or method change
3Hackney South and Shoreditch£4.4m£38£531Boundary or method change
4Lewisham North£4.4m£37£523Boundary or method change
5Clapham and Brixton Hill£4.0m£38£519Boundary or method change
6Tottenham£5.9m£42£517Boundary or method change
7Bethnal Green and Stepney£4.0m£30£517Boundary or method change
8Bermondsey and Old Southwark£3.7m£34£516Boundary or method change
9Holborn and St Pancras£5.5m£50£514Boundary or method change
10Queen's Park and Maida Vale£6.4m£51£508Boundary or method change
11Peckham£4.4m£40£507Boundary or method change
12Hackney North and Stoke Newington£4.9m£41£506Boundary or method change
13Islington North£5.0m£45£506Boundary or method change
14Walthamstow£4.7m£38£502Boundary or method change
15West Ham and Beckton£4.7m£32£502Boundary or method change
16Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£4.6m£43£502Boundary or method change
17Islington South and Finsbury£5.2m£43£502Boundary or method change
18Poplar and Limehouse£3.4m£23£501Boundary or method change
19Liverpool Riverside£5.8m£45£492Boundary or method change
20Bristol Central£3.4m£34£490Boundary or method change
21Croydon West£5.3m£41£488Boundary or method change
22Barking£4.6m£33£486Boundary or method change
23Leeds Central and Headingley£3.6m£32£483Boundary or method change
24Stratford and Bow£4.1m£30£483Boundary or method change
25Dulwich and West Norwood£5.0m£47£483Boundary or method change
26Nottingham East£5.1m£41£479Boundary or method change
27Leeds South£5.8m£45£479Boundary or method change
28Greenwich and Woolwich£4.4m£36£477Boundary or method change
29Bradford East£5.8m£47£476Boundary or method change
30Leyton and Wanstead£5.8m£50£474Boundary or method change
31East Ham£4.8m£35£473Boundary or method change
32Lewisham West and East Dulwich£4.7m£47£473Boundary or method change
33Brent East£7.0m£52£472Boundary or method change
34Tooting£4.6m£43£470Boundary or method change
35Glasgow North East£6.5m£58£468Boundary or method change
36Battersea£4.4m£39£468Boundary or method change
37Erith and Thamesmead£6.1m£44£468Boundary or method change
38Brighton Pavilion£5.2m£50£467Boundary or method change
39Salford£5.5m£41£467Boundary or method change
40Portsmouth South£6.2m£56£466Boundary or method change
41Manchester Central£4.8m£36£466Boundary or method change
42Birmingham Yardley£6.2m£53£464Boundary or method change
43Glasgow East£6.0m£59£464Boundary or method change
44Hammersmith and Chiswick£6.3m£53£463Boundary or method change
45Sheffield Central£3.3m£34£463Boundary or method change
46Lewisham East£5.8m£50£462Boundary or method change
47Manchester Withington£4.6m£49£462Boundary or method change
48Enfield North£6.9m£54£461Boundary or method change
49Ealing Central and Acton£6.8m£49£460Boundary or method change
50Thurrock£5.8m£47£459Boundary or method change

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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