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Halifax has the highest total spending on other benefits in 2024-25.

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 £0.47m
£0.47m to £0.57m
£0.57m to £0.68m
£0.68m to £0.78m
£0.78m to £0.88m
£0.88m and over

Estimated value

Spending on other benefits, total, 2024-25, 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, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Basingstoke, 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	£174.9m
Population	+£3.7m
Share claiming	+£6.5m
Payment size	+£21.4m
March 2026	£206.5m

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, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on other benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank				Notes
1	Halifax	£1.3m	£11
2	Caerphilly	£1.2m	£12
3	Wirral West	£1.1m	£12
4	Birmingham Yardley	£1.1m	£9.15
5	Dagenham and Rainham	£1.0m	£8.06
6	Clwyd East	£1.0m	£11
7	Gower	£1.0m	£10
8	Newark	£1.0m	£9.24
9	Walsall and Bloxwich	£1.0m	£8.08
10	Redditch	£1.0m	£10
11	Hexham	£1.0m	£10
12	South Leicestershire	£1.00m	£9.25
13	Weald of Kent	£0.99m	£9.90
14	Crewe and Nantwich	£0.98m	£8.36
15	Wolverhampton West	£0.98m	£8.23
16	West Dunbartonshire	£0.98m	£11	Shared out, Estimated
17	St Helens South and Whiston	£0.98m	£9.94
18	Bassetlaw	£0.96m	£8.71
19	Runnymede and Weybridge	£0.96m	£8.78
20	Ealing Southall	£0.96m	£7.25
21	Stretford and Urmston	£0.95m	£8.99
22	Doncaster Central	£0.94m	£7.95
23	Weston-super-Mare	£0.94m	£9.37
24	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£0.94m	£9.59	Shared out, Estimated
25	Mid Sussex	£0.94m	£9.06
26	Camborne and Redruth	£0.93m	£9.14
27	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	£0.93m	£9.47	Shared out, Estimated
28	Derbyshire Dales	£0.93m	£10
29	Epsom and Ewell	£0.92m	£8.33
30	Blackburn	£0.92m	£7.75
31	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£0.92m	£9.40
32	Coventry East	£0.92m	£7.32
33	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry	£0.92m	£9.07	Shared out, Estimated
34	Birmingham Erdington	£0.92m	£7.26
35	Hastings and Rye	£0.91m	£8.62
36	Bangor Aberconwy	£0.90m	£9.53
37	Swansea West	£0.90m	£7.95
38	East Renfrewshire	£0.89m	£8.95	Shared out, Estimated
39	Boston and Skegness	£0.89m	£7.56
40	Leicester East	£0.89m	£6.94
41	Bishop Auckland	£0.89m	£9.37
42	North Somerset	£0.88m	£9.21
43	West Lancashire	£0.88m	£8.47
44	Barrow and Furness	£0.88m	£8.94
45	Sheffield South East	£0.88m	£8.21
46	Bradford West	£0.88m	£6.90
47	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£0.87m	£6.23
48	Northampton South	£0.87m	£7.60
49	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£0.87m	£9.11
50	Pendle and Clitheroe	£0.87m	£7.61

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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