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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

Disability Living Allowance for children, and for adults who claimed it before Personal Independence Payment began. In Scotland, Child Disability Payment replaces it for children. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £96
£96 to £122
£122 to £147
£147 to £172
£172 to £197
£197 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency. Equal-size areas: every constituency is one hexagon of the same size, so small city seats show as clearly as large rural ones. Hexagon layout by Open Innovations. 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Disability Living Allowance and Child 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: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.9bn
Population	+£88.2m
Share claiming	+£1.0bn
Payment size	+£530.8m
March 2026	£8.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per resident, 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 Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Liverpool Walton	£27.6m	£269
2	Aberafan Maesteg	£23.7m	£257
3	West Dunbartonshire	£22.1m	£241	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4	Clacton	£24.2m	£238
5	Rhondda and Ogmore	£23.8m	£236
6	Wallasey	£22.7m	£233
7	Liverpool West Derby	£23.2m	£232
8	Birkenhead	£24.8m	£229
9	Knowsley	£22.3m	£229
10	Bootle	£23.6m	£229
11	Glasgow South	£20.9m	£227	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£22.4m	£224
13	Glasgow West	£22.6m	£224	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14	Easington	£21.1m	£221
15	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£21.1m	£221
16	Glasgow East	£22.8m	£221	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£21.0m	£221	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18	Glasgow North	£24.9m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19	Glasgow South West	£22.0m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20	Airdrie and Shotts	£20.6m	£220	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£21.3m	£219	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22	Glasgow North East	£24.5m	£216	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£19.4m	£216	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24	North Ayrshire and Arran	£19.2m	£212	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25	Barnsley South	£22.6m	£211
26	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£20.6m	£211	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27	Kingston upon Hull East	£21.9m	£211
28	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£23.9m	£210
29	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£19.3m	£209	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30	Liverpool Garston	£19.9m	£209
31	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£20.3m	£209	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32	Rutherglen	£19.9m	£208	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33	Normanton and Hemsworth	£21.9m	£207
34	Plymouth Moor View	£20.8m	£205
35	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	£19.5m	£203	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36	Rawmarsh and Conisbrough	£19.4m	£203
37	Blackpool South	£22.6m	£202
38	Llanelli	£19.2m	£201
39	Houghton and Sunderland South	£20.9m	£201
40	Neath and Swansea East	£20.1m	£199
41	Washington and Gateshead South	£19.0m	£198
42	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	£22.6m	£196
43	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£19.0m	£196
44	Clwyd North	£19.6m	£195
45	Midlothian	£19.1m	£194	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46	Barnsley North	£20.7m	£194
47	Bathgate and Linlithgow	£18.3m	£193	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48	Rotherham	£21.6m	£192
49	East Thanet	£20.1m	£192
50	Dumfries and Galloway	£18.4m	£191	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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