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Glasgow North East has the highest total spending on Employment and Support Allowance in 2023-24.

Money for people whose illness or disability limits how much they can work. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £14.3m
£14.3m to £19.9m
£19.9m to £25.5m
£25.5m to £31.1m
£31.1m to £36.7m
£36.7m and over

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 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, Employment and Support Allowance: 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: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023	£13.5bn
Population	+£93.9m
Share claiming	−£6.2bn
Payment size	−£2.2bn
March 2026	£5.2bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	£69.5m	£614	£865
2	Liverpool Riverside	£58.6m	£460	£600
3	Glasgow East	£53.0m	£514	£731
4	Liverpool Walton	£49.8m	£486	£764
5	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£48.2m	£506	£818
6	Rhondda and Ogmore	£47.3m	£469	£757
7	Glasgow North	£46.9m	£414	£539
8	Blackpool South	£46.8m	£420	£670
9	Birkenhead	£45.3m	£419	£672
10	Glasgow South West	£45.3m	£453	£661
11	Glasgow West	£44.7m	£442	£629
12	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£44.1m	£440	£716
13	Bootle	£42.7m	£415	£654
14	Aberafan Maesteg	£42.1m	£457	£754
15	Liverpool West Derby	£42.0m	£421	£666
16	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£41.8m	£367	£580
17	Swansea West	£41.7m	£375	£563
18	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£41.6m	£335	£465
19	Knowsley	£41.1m	£423	£671
20	Dundee Central	£40.7m	£382	£559
21	Blackley and Middleton South	£40.7m	£356	£570
22	West Dunbartonshire	£40.6m	£442	£706
23	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£40.2m	£368	£594
24	Birmingham Erdington	£40.0m	£321	£501
25	Islington South and Finsbury	£39.5m	£327	£425
26	Bolton South and Walkden	£39.4m	£307	£490
27	Holborn and St Pancras	£39.4m	£354	£463
28	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£38.8m	£326	£506
29	Leeds South	£38.6m	£299	£443
30	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£38.5m	£337	£541
31	Tottenham	£38.2m	£276	£386
32	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£37.6m	£323	£418
33	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£37.5m	£394	£606
34	Sheffield Heeley	£37.3m	£341	£538
35	Salford	£37.2m	£278	£377
36	Liverpool Wavertree	£37.1m	£347	£497
37	Glasgow South	£36.9m	£402	£582
38	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	£36.9m	£320	£436
39	Nottingham East	£36.9m	£299	£404
40	Neath and Swansea East	£36.9m	£365	£585
41	Islington North	£36.6m	£331	£441
42	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£36.5m	£373	£587
43	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£36.3m	£383	£588
44	Pontypridd	£36.1m	£345	£547
45	Easington	£35.8m	£376	£610
46	Birmingham Ladywood	£35.4m	£219	£301
47	Kingston upon Hull East	£35.4m	£340	£552
48	Stoke-on-Trent Central	£35.3m	£300	£461
49	Airdrie and Shotts	£35.0m	£374	£580
50	Coventry East	£35.0m	£286	£451

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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