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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has the highest total spending on Income Support in 2023-24.

An older benefit for people on a low income. Universal Credit has mostly replaced it. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £0.71m
£0.71m to £1.1m
£1.1m to £1.5m
£1.5m to £1.9m
£1.9m to £2.3m
£2.3m and over

Spending on Income Support, 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

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 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?

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 Income Support, 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 Income Support for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£4.3m	£37	£59
2	Glasgow North East	£3.9m	£35	£49
3	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£3.4m	£28	£44
4	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£3.3m	£27	£43
5	Liverpool Walton	£3.3m	£32	£51
6	Tipton and Wednesbury	£3.2m	£28	£45
7	Sheffield Heeley	£3.1m	£29	£45
8	Walsall and Bloxwich	£3.1m	£25	£40
9	Liverpool Riverside	£3.0m	£24	£31
10	Birmingham Ladywood	£3.0m	£18	£26
11	Wolverhampton South East	£2.9m	£23	£37
12	Leeds South	£2.8m	£22	£32
13	Birmingham Erdington	£2.7m	£22	£34
14	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£2.7m	£25	£40
15	Birkenhead	£2.6m	£24	£39
16	Birmingham Northfield	£2.6m	£24	£39
17	Islington South and Finsbury	£2.5m	£21	£27
18	Bolton South and Walkden	£2.5m	£20	£32
19	Kingston upon Hull East	£2.5m	£24	£39
20	Bradford East	£2.5m	£20	£32
21	Tottenham	£2.5m	£18	£25
22	Blackpool South	£2.5m	£22	£35
23	Rhondda and Ogmore	£2.5m	£25	£40
24	Aberafan Maesteg	£2.5m	£27	£44
25	Bradford South	£2.5m	£22	£36
26	Sheffield South East	£2.5m	£23	£37
27	Blyth and Ashington	£2.4m	£23	£38
28	Glasgow South West	£2.4m	£24	£35
29	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£2.4m	£20	£26
30	Bradford West	£2.4m	£19	£29
31	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£2.4m	£18	£23
32	Liverpool West Derby	£2.3m	£23	£37
33	Islington North	£2.3m	£21	£28
34	Leicester West	£2.3m	£17	£26
35	Glasgow East	£2.3m	£22	£32
36	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£2.3m	£18	£26
37	Nottingham South	£2.3m	£21	£29
38	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£2.3m	£24	£39
39	Knowsley	£2.3m	£23	£37
40	Rotherham	£2.2m	£20	£31
41	Glasgow West	£2.2m	£22	£31
42	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£2.2m	£21	£34
43	Barking	£2.2m	£16	£24
44	Holborn and St Pancras	£2.2m	£20	£26
45	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£2.2m	£24	£39
46	Bootle	£2.2m	£21	£34
47	Wolverhampton North East	£2.2m	£20	£33
48	Lewisham East	£2.2m	£18	£27
49	Sunderland Central	£2.2m	£21	£33
50	Stockton North	£2.2m	£21	£34

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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