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Halifax has the highest total spending on other benefits in 2023-24.

Bereavement Benefit, Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £0.45m
£0.45m to £0.54m
£0.54m to £0.64m
£0.64m to £0.74m
£0.74m to £0.84m
£0.84m and over

Estimated value

Spending on other benefits, 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?

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 other benefits, 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 other benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Halifax	£1.1m	£10
2	Caerphilly	£1.1m	£12
3	Ealing Southall	£1.1m	£8.16
4	Wirral West	£1.0m	£11
5	Newark	£1.0m	£9.34
6	Dagenham and Rainham	£1.00m	£8.07
7	Birmingham Yardley	£0.97m	£8.39
8	East Renfrewshire	£0.96m	£9.74	Shared out, Estimated
9	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£0.96m	£9.87
10	Wolverhampton West	£0.95m	£8.15
11	Blackburn	£0.95m	£8.20
12	Harrow East	£0.95m	£7.86
13	Bolton South and Walkden	£0.94m	£7.35
14	West Dunbartonshire	£0.93m	£10	Shared out, Estimated
15	Clwyd East	£0.93m	£9.63
16	Gower	£0.93m	£9.45
17	Walsall and Bloxwich	£0.92m	£7.56
18	Weston-super-Mare	£0.92m	£9.26
19	St Helens South and Whiston	£0.92m	£9.46
20	Doncaster Central	£0.92m	£7.90
21	Weald of Kent	£0.91m	£9.29
22	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£0.91m	£9.39	Shared out, Estimated
23	Barrow and Furness	£0.91m	£9.33
24	Hexham	£0.91m	£9.57
25	Leicester East	£0.91m	£7.14
26	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe	£0.90m	£9.78
27	Reigate	£0.90m	£8.03
28	Bassetlaw	£0.90m	£8.28
29	Derbyshire Dales	£0.90m	£9.84
30	North Ayrshire and Arran	£0.89m	£9.84	Shared out, Estimated
31	Airdrie and Shotts	£0.89m	£9.54	Shared out, Estimated
32	Stretford and Urmston	£0.89m	£8.56
33	Camborne and Redruth	£0.89m	£8.81
34	Runnymede and Weybridge	£0.88m	£8.14
35	Harrow West	£0.88m	£7.02
36	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry	£0.87m	£8.65	Shared out, Estimated
37	Rutherglen	£0.87m	£9.14	Shared out, Estimated
38	Coventry East	£0.87m	£7.12
39	Plymouth Moor View	£0.87m	£8.55
40	South Leicestershire	£0.87m	£8.26
41	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	£0.87m	£7.25
42	Northampton South	£0.86m	£7.59
43	Hastings and Rye	£0.86m	£8.21
44	Redditch	£0.86m	£8.66
45	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£0.86m	£6.94
46	Tipton and Wednesbury	£0.86m	£7.43
47	Alloa and Grangemouth	£0.86m	£9.07	Shared out, Estimated
48	Bradford West	£0.86m	£6.87
49	Birmingham Erdington	£0.86m	£6.90
50	Rotherham	£0.86m	£7.63

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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