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Liverpool Walton has the highest total spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment in 2023-24.

Disability Living Allowance for children, and for adults who claimed it before Personal Independence Payment began. In Scotland, Child Disability Payment replaces it for children. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £9.7m
£9.7m to £12.3m
£12.3m to £14.9m
£14.9m to £17.5m
£17.5m to £20.0m
£20.0m and over

Estimated value

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, total, 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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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 total are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment: 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: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.9bn
Population	+£88.2m
Share claiming	+£1.0bn
Payment size	+£530.8m
March 2026	£8.5bn

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.

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

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, 2023-24. 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.

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Liverpool Walton	£27.6m	£269
2	Glasgow North	£24.9m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3	Birkenhead	£24.8m	£229
4	Glasgow North East	£24.5m	£216	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
5	Clacton	£24.2m	£238
6	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£23.9m	£210
7	Rhondda and Ogmore	£23.8m	£236
8	Aberafan Maesteg	£23.7m	£257
9	Bootle	£23.6m	£229
10	Liverpool West Derby	£23.2m	£232
11	Glasgow East	£22.8m	£221	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12	Wallasey	£22.7m	£233
13	Glasgow West	£22.6m	£224	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	£22.6m	£196
15	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£22.6m	£182
16	Blackpool South	£22.6m	£202
17	Barnsley South	£22.6m	£211
18	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£22.4m	£224
19	Bolton South and Walkden	£22.3m	£174
20	Knowsley	£22.3m	£229
21	West Dunbartonshire	£22.1m	£241	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22	Glasgow South West	£22.0m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23	Normanton and Hemsworth	£21.9m	£207
24	Kingston upon Hull East	£21.9m	£211
25	Rotherham	£21.6m	£192
26	Blackley and Middleton South	£21.4m	£187
27	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£21.4m	£187
28	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£21.3m	£219	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29	Easington	£21.1m	£221
30	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£21.1m	£221
31	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£21.0m	£221	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32	Liverpool Riverside	£20.9m	£164
33	Houghton and Sunderland South	£20.9m	£201
34	Glasgow South	£20.9m	£227	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Plymouth Moor View	£20.8m	£205
36	Sheffield Heeley	£20.7m	£190
37	Barnsley North	£20.7m	£194
38	Birmingham Northfield	£20.6m	£190
39	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£20.6m	£211	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40	Airdrie and Shotts	£20.6m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41	Birmingham Erdington	£20.3m	£163
42	Dundee Central	£20.3m	£191	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£20.3m	£209	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	East Thanet	£20.1m	£192
45	Neath and Swansea East	£20.1m	£199
46	Livingston	£20.0m	£190	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
47	Liverpool Garston	£19.9m	£209
48	Rutherglen	£19.9m	£208	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
49	Blackburn	£19.8m	£170
50	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£19.7m	£181

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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