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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per resident in 2023-24.

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

Per resident, low to high

Under £141
£141 to £197
£197 to £253
£253 to £309
£309 to £364
£364 and over

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 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

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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, 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.

What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023	£13.5bn
Population	+£93.9m
Share claiming	−£6.2bn
Payment size	−£2.2bn
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.

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, 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	£69.5m	£614	£865
2	Glasgow East	£53.0m	£514	£731
3	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£48.2m	£506	£818
4	Liverpool Walton	£49.8m	£486	£764
5	Rhondda and Ogmore	£47.3m	£469	£757
6	Liverpool Riverside	£58.6m	£460	£600
7	Aberafan Maesteg	£42.1m	£457	£754
8	Glasgow South West	£45.3m	£453	£661
9	West Dunbartonshire	£40.6m	£442	£706
10	Glasgow West	£44.7m	£442	£629
11	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£44.1m	£440	£716
12	Knowsley	£41.1m	£423	£671
13	Liverpool West Derby	£42.0m	£421	£666
14	Blackpool South	£46.8m	£420	£670
15	Birkenhead	£45.3m	£419	£672
16	Bootle	£42.7m	£415	£654
17	Glasgow North	£46.9m	£414	£539
18	Glasgow South	£36.9m	£402	£582
19	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£37.5m	£394	£606
20	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£36.3m	£383	£588
21	Dundee Central	£40.7m	£382	£559
22	Easington	£35.8m	£376	£610
23	Swansea West	£41.7m	£375	£563
24	Airdrie and Shotts	£35.0m	£374	£580
25	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£36.5m	£373	£587
26	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£34.4m	£370	£604
27	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£40.2m	£368	£594
28	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£41.8m	£367	£580
29	Llanelli	£34.8m	£365	£615
30	Neath and Swansea East	£36.9m	£365	£585
31	Caerphilly	£34.8m	£360	£590
32	Wallasey	£34.7m	£356	£590
33	Blackley and Middleton South	£40.7m	£356	£570
34	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£31.9m	£355	£578
35	Holborn and St Pancras	£39.4m	£354	£463
36	North Ayrshire and Arran	£32.0m	£352	£594
37	Liverpool Garston	£33.4m	£351	£582
38	Liverpool Wavertree	£37.1m	£347	£497
39	Pontypridd	£36.1m	£345	£547
40	Sheffield Heeley	£37.3m	£341	£538
41	Kingston upon Hull East	£35.4m	£340	£552
42	Clwyd North	£34.2m	£339	£593
43	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	£32.6m	£339	£533
44	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£38.5m	£337	£541
45	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£41.6m	£335	£465
46	Islington North	£36.6m	£331	£441
47	Torfaen	£30.6m	£327	£540
48	Islington South and Finsbury	£39.5m	£327	£425
49	St Helens South and Whiston	£31.6m	£326	£523
50	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£29.4m	£326	£555

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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