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Christchurch has the highest spending on winter heating payments per resident 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, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £50
  2. £50 to £63
  3. £63 to £77
  4. £77 to £90
  5. £90 to £104
  6. £104 and over
Spending on Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating 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.
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 over1632Clacton 358Isle of Wight East 434South Devon 439Bexhill and Battle 488Louth and Horncastle 518West Dorset 559North Norfolk 561Christchurch 584New Forest West 590Honiton and Sidmouth 593

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, 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 Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Age Winter Heating Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Christchurch£12.2m£138£410Boundary or method change
2North Norfolk£12.0m£137£412Boundary or method change
3New Forest West£11.4m£134£410Boundary or method change
4West Dorset£12.3m£129£412Boundary or method change
5Clacton£13.1m£129£425Boundary or method change
6Bexhill and Battle£11.7m£128£417Boundary or method change
7Isle of Wight East£8.8m£127£419Boundary or method change
8Honiton and Sidmouth£11.7m£126£409Boundary or method change
9Louth and Horncastle£12.0m£122£415Boundary or method change
10South Devon£11.1m£121£419Boundary or method change
11South Shropshire£11.6m£121£408Boundary or method change
12Suffolk Coastal£11.4m£120£413Boundary or method change
13Bridlington and The Wolds£11.2m£119£411Boundary or method change
14North Northumberland£10.9m£117£411Boundary or method change
15Tiverton and Minehead£10.7m£116£416Boundary or method change
16Waveney Valley£10.5m£116£407Boundary or method change
17St Ives£10.3m£116£427Boundary or method change
18Arundel and South Downs£11.4m£115£410Boundary or method change
19Lewes£11.1m£115£422Boundary or method change
20Torridge and Tavistock£11.2m£115£412Boundary or method change
21North Herefordshire£10.5m£114£407Boundary or method change
22Wirral West£10.1m£114£417Boundary or method change
23South East Cornwall£10.5m£113£412Boundary or method change
24Fylde£11.3m£113£414Boundary or method change
25Sefton Central£10.5m£113£425Boundary or method change
26Thirsk and Malton£11.1m£113£418Boundary or method change
27West Worcestershire£11.3m£112£412Boundary or method change
28Na h-Eileanan an Iar£2.9m£112£437Boundary or method change
29Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£10.3m£112£420Boundary or method change
30Westmorland and Lonsdale£10.2m£111£413Boundary or method change
31South Dorset£10.9m£110£414Boundary or method change
32Newton Abbot£10.4m£110£422Boundary or method change
33Dumfries and Galloway£10.6m£110£425Boundary or method change
34Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£11.9m£110£417Boundary or method change
35Isle of Wight West£7.9m£110£417Boundary or method change
36Herne Bay and Sandwich£11.1m£109£414Boundary or method change
37Skipton and Ripon£10.9m£109£411Boundary or method change
38Beverley and Holderness£9.9m£109£418Boundary or method change
39Ceredigion Preseli£10.3m£109£424Boundary or method change
40Blackpool North and Fleetwood£10.5m£109£429Boundary or method change
41North Dorset£10.3m£108£411Boundary or method change
42Chichester£11.6m£108£421Boundary or method change
43Scarborough and Whitby£10.6m£108£424Boundary or method change
44Hexham£10.2m£108£409Boundary or method change
45Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber£10.1m£108£420Boundary or method change
46Morecambe and Lunesdale£10.7m£108£423Boundary or method change
47Ynys Môn£7.4m£107£418Boundary or method change
48Worthing West£10.9m£107£415Boundary or method change
49Glastonbury and Somerton£10.1m£107£418Boundary or method change
50Lowestoft£10.2m£107£421Boundary or method change

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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