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Glasgow North has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

Help for people over State Pension age whose disability means they need care. In Scotland, Pension Age Disability Payment replaces Attendance Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

Under £568
£568 to £663
£663 to £757
£757 to £851
£851 to £945
£945 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 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 per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment: 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: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.4bn
Population	+£130.5m
Share claiming	+£1.7bn
Payment size	+£446.5m
March 2026	£8.7bn

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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 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 = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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 Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank					Notes
1	Glasgow North	£16.2m	£143	£1,386	Shared out, Estimated
2	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£9.6m	£72	£1,251
3	Birmingham Ladywood	£10.6m	£66	£1,242
4	Glasgow North East	£15.9m	£140	£1,139	Shared out, Estimated
5	Glasgow East	£14.8m	£143	£1,132	Shared out, Estimated
6	Hartlepool	£20.0m	£209	£1,117
7	Manchester Rusholme	£6.6m	£56	£1,104
8	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£17.1m	£180	£1,095	Shared out, Estimated
9	Glasgow South West	£14.3m	£143	£1,083	Shared out, Estimated
10	Airdrie and Shotts	£16.8m	£179	£1,078	Shared out, Estimated
11	Liverpool Riverside	£12.4m	£98	£1,065
12	Glasgow West	£14.7m	£145	£1,056	Shared out, Estimated
13	Neath and Swansea East	£20.4m	£202	£1,054
14	Swansea West	£18.2m	£164	£1,031
15	Glasgow South	£13.5m	£147	£1,007	Shared out, Estimated
16	Newport East	£17.1m	£149	£999
17	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£17.1m	£175	£994	Shared out, Estimated
18	Llanelli	£20.3m	£213	£992
19	Aberafan Maesteg	£18.0m	£195	£989
20	Liverpool Walton	£15.4m	£150	£984
21	Smethwick	£14.3m	£121	£977
22	Whitehaven and Workington	£19.8m	£210	£976
23	Birmingham Perry Barr	£12.4m	£99	£971
24	Stratford and Bow	£8.1m	£60	£961
25	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£16.4m	£178	£954	Shared out, Estimated
26	Newport West and Islwyn	£18.3m	£178	£946
27	Clwyd North	£22.8m	£226	£945
28	Bradford East	£11.5m	£94	£945
29	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£17.0m	£178	£932
30	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£16.4m	£119	£931
31	Knowsley	£14.2m	£146	£930
32	West Dunbartonshire	£16.3m	£178	£930	Shared out, Estimated
33	Liverpool West Derby	£15.3m	£153	£927
34	Bradford West	£11.3m	£90	£925
35	Cardiff South and Penarth	£12.3m	£109	£919
36	Birmingham Yardley	£12.2m	£105	£912
37	West Bromwich	£15.0m	£132	£906
38	Peckham	£7.9m	£71	£905
39	Tipton and Wednesbury	£15.0m	£129	£903
40	Rhondda and Ogmore	£17.1m	£169	£902
41	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£13.1m	£105	£901
42	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£13.6m	£119	£900
43	St Helens South and Whiston	£16.3m	£168	£899
44	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£6.0m	£230	£899	Shared out, Estimated
45	Clacton	£27.7m	£272	£899
46	Sunderland Central	£16.9m	£165	£895
47	Poplar and Limehouse	£6.0m	£40	£895
48	Gower	£20.8m	£211	£895
49	Bridgend	£17.7m	£184	£892
50	Caerphilly	£16.6m	£172	£892

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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