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Birmingham has the highest total spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment in 2024-25.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, total, 2024-25, by local authority

Total, low to high

  1. Under £66.3m
  2. £66.3m to £115.0m
  3. £115.0m to £163.7m
  4. £163.7m to £212.4m
  5. £212.4m to £261.1m
  6. £261.1m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, total, 2024-25, by local authority. 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 350 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1350Liverpool 7North Lanarkshire 13Glasgow City 19County Durham 22Manchester 74Bradford 80Birmingham 83Sheffield 86Cornwall 134Leeds 158

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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.

£22.1bnJuly 2023+£266.5mPopulation+£7.1bnShare claiming+£1.0bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£22.1bn
Population+£266.5m
Share claiming+£7.1bn
Payment size+£1.0bn
July 2026£30.5bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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.

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Expected level = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 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 350 rows are shown.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham£652.7m£552
2Glasgow City£476.4m£733Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3Liverpool£414.0m£815
4County Durham£385.3m£718
5Leeds£370.2m£439
6Manchester£332.6m£565
7Sheffield£315.2m£543
8Bradford£309.7m£553
9Cornwall£272.7m£468
10North Lanarkshire£266.6m£776Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
11Wirral£233.7m£712
12Somerset£224.9m£382
13Kirklees£222.7m£500
14Fife£219.7m£586Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Sunderland£216.9m£756
16Bristol, City of£215.9m£437
17North Yorkshire£215.7m£340
18South Lanarkshire£214.2m£643Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19Wakefield£211.7m£577
20City of Edinburgh£210.2m£395Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21Cardiff£205.0m£537
22Nottingham£202.2m£612
23Sandwell£200.6m£568
24Wigan£197.8m£575
25Doncaster£193.7m£605
26Rhondda Cynon Taf£193.7m£801
27Sefton£187.7m£658
28Rotherham£181.6m£657
29Leicester£179.1m£463
30Barnsley£177.1m£705
31Northumberland£176.1m£533
32Swansea£175.0m£698
33Coventry£173.4m£470
34Newcastle upon Tyne£171.2m£537
35Cheshire West and Chester£169.3m£456
36Walsall£169.0m£574
37Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£168.8m£414
38Salford£165.8m£565
39Bolton£165.2m£535
40Dudley£164.5m£497
41Wiltshire£163.6m£312
42Stoke-on-Trent£163.0m£604
43Kingston upon Hull, City of£161.2m£587
44Plymouth£160.4m£590
45North Northamptonshire£160.3m£427
46Caerphilly£153.1m£869
47Dorset£150.3m£386
48West Northamptonshire£150.2m£340
49Wolverhampton£150.2m£535
50Derby£149.6m£547

League table of every local authority 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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