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Brent East has the highest total benefit spending in 2023-24.

All the benefits on this site: pensioner, disability, carer, working-age and housing benefits paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In Scotland, it includes the Social Security Scotland benefits that replace some of them. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Total, low to high

Under £360.1m
£360.1m to £405.7m
£405.7m to £451.3m
£451.3m to £496.9m
£496.9m to £542.5m
£542.5m and over

Estimated value

Benefit spending, 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 631 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?

Battersea, 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	£87.8m
Population	+£2.1m
Share claiming	+£6.3m
Payment size	+£10.6m
March 2026	£106.9m

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

Benefit spending, 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.

Benefit spending for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Brent East	£722.7m	£5,326
2	Tottenham	£692.6m	£5,010
3	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	£676.7m	£5,400
4	Enfield North	£664.4m	£5,199
5	Clacton	£660.2m	£6,492
6	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£657.0m	£5,295
7	Blackpool South	£641.9m	£5,757
8	Birmingham Erdington	£641.4m	£5,147
9	Birmingham Ladywood	£624.6m	£3,856
10	Boston and Skegness	£623.8m	£5,305
11	Birkenhead	£600.5m	£5,565
12	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£589.9m	£4,298
13	Clwyd North	£589.1m	£5,851
14	Glasgow North East	£587.6m	£5,189	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15	East Thanet	£586.3m	£5,582
16	Liverpool Walton	£585.9m	£5,714
17	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£580.5m	£4,870
18	Liverpool Riverside	£580.1m	£4,553
19	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£578.9m	£4,658
20	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£578.9m	£4,912
21	Southgate and Wood Green	£576.8m	£4,522
22	Torbay	£573.8m	£5,491
23	Bolton South and Walkden	£570.2m	£4,442
24	Swansea West	£568.6m	£5,107
25	Wolverhampton South East	£568.5m	£4,523
26	Bootle	£567.3m	£5,506
27	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	£564.4m	£5,234
28	Birmingham Perry Barr	£564.2m	£4,519
29	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£562.2m	£4,945
30	Hastings and Rye	£558.9m	£5,317
31	Walsall and Bloxwich	£557.6m	£4,574
32	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£557.1m	£5,846
33	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	£556.1m	£5,133
34	Peterborough	£553.3m	£4,197
35	Louth and Horncastle	£552.8m	£5,611
36	Rhondda and Ogmore	£551.0m	£5,464
37	Great Yarmouth	£548.9m	£5,477
38	Aberafan Maesteg	£548.8m	£5,950
39	Blackley and Middleton South	£546.6m	£4,780
40	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£546.4m	£5,459
41	Birmingham Northfield	£546.3m	£5,036
42	Eastbourne	£545.9m	£5,256
43	Croydon West	£545.5m	£4,244
44	Houghton and Sunderland South	£544.8m	£5,231
45	Coventry East	£543.2m	£4,445
46	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	£543.1m	£4,617
47	Bolton North East	£541.5m	£4,610
48	Easington	£541.2m	£5,676
49	Erith and Thamesmead	£540.7m	£3,940
50	Blyth and Ashington	£539.3m	£5,184

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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