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Liverpool Walton has the highest spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

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.

Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Shipley: £111 per resident, 2024-25, 440th of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £103
  2. £103 to £129
  3. £129 to £154
  4. £154 to £180
  5. £180 to £205
  6. £205 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment, per resident, 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 per resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1632Liverpool Walton 1Aberafan Maesteg 2West Dunbartonshire 3Birkenhead 4Clacton 5Wallasey 6Knowsley 7Bootle 8Liverpool West Derby 9Rhondda and Ogmore 10Shipley 440

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Shipley, 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.

£8.7mFebruary 2023+£0.03mPopulation+£2.4mShare claiming+£0.87mPayment size£12.0mMarch 2026
What changed: Disability Living Allowance and Child Disability Payment
February 2023£8.7m
Population+£0.03m
Share claiming+£2.4m
Payment size+£0.87m
March 2026£12.0m
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.

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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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton£30.1m£294
2Aberafan Maesteg£24.1m£259
3West Dunbartonshire£23.1m£252Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Birkenhead£27.6m£251
5Clacton£25.8m£250
6Wallasey£24.4m£248
7Knowsley£24.5m£247
8Bootle£25.7m£246
9Liverpool West Derby£24.9m£246
10Rhondda and Ogmore£24.1m£238
11Easington£22.8m£237
12Glasgow South£21.8m£235Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13Glasgow West£23.7m£232Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£23.1m£230
15Coatbridge and Bellshill£22.0m£230Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16Airdrie and Shotts£21.6m£229Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£22.4m£229Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£26.4m£229
19Kingston upon Hull East£23.8m£228
20Liverpool Garston£21.5m£227
21Glasgow North£26.1m£226Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
22Glasgow South West£23.0m£226Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23Glasgow East£23.8m£226Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
24Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£20.1m£223Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25Glasgow North East£25.6m£222Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26North Ayrshire and Arran£20.2m£222Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£21.2m£222
28Hamilton and Clyde Valley£21.7m£221Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Barnsley South£23.6m£219
30Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£20.2m£219Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31East Kilbride and Strathaven£21.3m£217Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32Rutherglen£20.9m£217Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Plymouth Moor View£22.1m£217
34Sittingbourne and Sheppey£25.2m£216
35Washington and Gateshead South£20.8m£215
36Normanton and Hemsworth£22.8m£213
37Kilmarnock and Loudoun£20.6m£213Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38Rawmarsh and Conisbrough£20.5m£212
39East Thanet£22.3m£210
40Birmingham Northfield£22.9m£209
41Blackpool South£23.6m£209
42Houghton and Sunderland South£22.0m£207
43Sheffield Heeley£23.0m£207
44Midlothian£20.6m£206Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Llanelli£19.6m£206
46Wythenshawe and Sale East£23.5m£206
47Bathgate and Linlithgow£19.6m£205Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Barnsley North£21.8m£203
48Clwyd North£20.5m£203
50Blackley and Middleton South£23.4m£202

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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