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Brent East has the highest total benefit spending in 2024-25.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £388.1m
£388.1m to £440.7m
£440.7m to £493.3m
£493.3m to £545.9m
£545.9m to £598.5m
£598.5m and over

Estimated value

Benefit spending, total, 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 631 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

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.

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?

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.

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

Benefit spending, 2024-25. Rank is for total, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank				Notes
1	Brent East	£787.9m	£5,745
2	Tottenham	£762.4m	£5,507
3	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£734.6m	£5,872
4	Enfield North	£727.3m	£5,704
5	Clacton	£708.9m	£6,882
6	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£708.1m	£5,680
7	Birmingham Erdington	£707.9m	£5,611
8	Birmingham Ladywood	£705.2m	£4,225
9	Blackpool South	£689.5m	£6,123
10	Boston and Skegness	£666.7m	£5,665
11	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£655.8m	£5,585
12	Birkenhead	£653.9m	£5,956
13	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£653.7m	£5,212
14	Liverpool Walton	£649.5m	£6,341
15	Liverpool Riverside	£641.2m	£4,872
16	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£640.5m	£4,559
17	Glasgow North East	£638.2m	£5,545	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18	Birmingham Perry Barr	£634.2m	£5,062
19	East Thanet	£632.0m	£5,949
20	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£630.3m	£5,465
21	Clwyd North	£628.9m	£6,205
22	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£624.0m	£5,148
23	Bolton South and Walkden	£623.9m	£4,782
24	Southgate and Wood Green	£621.7m	£4,870
25	Bootle	£619.1m	£5,937
26	Walsall and Bloxwich	£617.9m	£4,940
27	Wolverhampton South East	£616.5m	£4,804
28	Torbay	£606.8m	£5,795
29	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£606.0m	£5,595
30	Swansea West	£605.8m	£5,369
31	Peterborough	£602.7m	£4,543
32	Blackley and Middleton South	£601.8m	£5,216
33	Birmingham Northfield	£598.6m	£5,473
34	Hastings and Rye	£596.4m	£5,670
35	Ealing North	£595.8m	£4,431
36	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£594.7m	£6,220
37	Rotherham	£594.2m	£5,176
38	Erith and Thamesmead	£593.6m	£4,252
39	Leeds South	£592.3m	£4,482
40	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	£591.5m	£5,423
41	Houghton and Sunderland South	£591.5m	£5,574
42	Coventry East	£590.4m	£4,711
43	Easington	£590.1m	£6,135
44	West Ham and Beckton	£589.4m	£3,984
45	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	£588.1m	£4,900
46	Rhondda and Ogmore	£587.7m	£5,807
47	Liverpool West Derby	£587.5m	£5,808
48	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£586.9m	£5,838
49	Derby South	£585.7m	£4,671
50	Lewisham East	£585.4m	£4,967

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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