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Knowsley has the highest spending on winter heating payments per resident in 2024-25.

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, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £3.63
  2. £3.63 to £4.64
  3. £4.64 to £5.64
  4. £5.64 to £6.65
  5. £6.65 to £7.66
  6. £7.66 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per resident, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Queen's Park and Maida Vale 12Leicester East 29Liverpool Walton 37Glasgow South 38Knowsley 40Bootle 56Liverpool West Derby 58Blackpool South 76Torbay 184Clacton 245

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.

Benefit
£120.7bnFebruary 2023+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£15.0bnPayment size£143.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£120.7bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
Payment size+£15.0bn
March 2026£143.4bn
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.

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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, 2024-25. 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 Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Knowsley£0.93m£9.39£59
2Liverpool Walton£0.95m£9.24£59
3Clacton£0.94m£9.16£30
4Liverpool West Derby£0.92m£9.07£54
5Bootle£0.94m£9.04£55
6Queen's Park and Maida Vale£1.1m£8.93£86
7Leicester East£1.1m£8.86£67
8Torbay£0.93m£8.85£35
9Blackpool South£0.99m£8.83£50
10Glasgow South£0.82m£8.76£59Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
11South Shields£0.79m£8.73£41
12Clwyd North£0.88m£8.69£36
13Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£0.83m£8.68£45
14Glasgow West£0.88m£8.66£62Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.83m£8.65£46
16Hartlepool£0.84m£8.54£46
17Liverpool Riverside£1.1m£8.47£94
18Glasgow North£0.97m£8.46£82Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Glasgow South West£0.86m£8.46£63Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Glasgow East£0.89m£8.43£67Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Liverpool Garston£0.79m£8.31£42
22Glasgow North East£0.96m£8.31£67Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23St Ives£0.74m£8.25£30
24Boston and Skegness£0.97m£8.24£35
25Redcar£0.79m£8.24£38
26Washington and Gateshead South£0.79m£8.23£40
27Houghton and Sunderland South£0.86m£8.14£41
28Holborn and St Pancras£0.90m£8.09£82
29Great Yarmouth£0.81m£8.08£34
30Rhondda and Ogmore£0.81m£8.05£43
31Blackpool North and Fleetwood£0.78m£8.02£31
32Sunderland Central£0.84m£7.97£44
33Aberafan Maesteg£0.74m£7.96£40
34Wallasey£0.77m£7.88£39
35Bridlington and The Wolds£0.75m£7.84£27
36Hastings and Rye£0.82m£7.84£36
37Isle of Wight East£0.54m£7.83£26
38Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes£0.85m£7.81£43
39East Thanet£0.83m£7.81£37
40Bishop Auckland£0.74m£7.77£33
41Easington£0.74m£7.72£40
42Tottenham£1.1m£7.72£91
43Brent East£1.1m£7.71£70
44Tipton and Wednesbury£0.91m£7.71£54
45Kingston upon Hull East£0.80m£7.70£47
46North Ayrshire and Arran£0.69m£7.62£31Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
47Dwyfor Meirionnydd£0.73m£7.60£31
48Hackney North and Stoke Newington£0.89m£7.59£91
49Hackney South and Shoreditch£0.89m£7.56£104
50Birkenhead£0.83m£7.56£44

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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