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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

Money for people whose illness or disability limits how much they can work. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

Under £224
£224 to £311
£311 to £397
£397 to £484
£484 to £570
£570 and over

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 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

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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 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Pontypridd, Employment and Support Allowance: 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: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023	£35.8m
Population	+£0.09m
Share claiming	−£16.0m
Payment size	−£5.9m
March 2026	£14.0m

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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?

Spending on working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£2,631 + £5,734 × share aged 0 to 15 + £551 × share aged 66 and over − £201 × deprivation decile + £429 × ln(median pay) + £353 × Wales + £111 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 626 constituencies. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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 Employment and Support Allowance for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	£69.5m	£614	£865
2	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£48.2m	£506	£818
3	Liverpool Walton	£49.8m	£486	£764
4	Rhondda and Ogmore	£47.3m	£469	£757
5	Aberafan Maesteg	£42.1m	£457	£754
6	Glasgow East	£53.0m	£514	£731
7	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£44.1m	£440	£716
8	West Dunbartonshire	£40.6m	£442	£706
9	Birkenhead	£45.3m	£419	£672
10	Knowsley	£41.1m	£423	£671
11	Blackpool South	£46.8m	£420	£670
12	Liverpool West Derby	£42.0m	£421	£666
13	Glasgow South West	£45.3m	£453	£661
14	Bootle	£42.7m	£415	£654
15	Glasgow West	£44.7m	£442	£629
16	Llanelli	£34.8m	£365	£615
17	Easington	£35.8m	£376	£610
18	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£37.5m	£394	£606
19	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£34.4m	£370	£604
20	Liverpool Riverside	£58.6m	£460	£600
21	North Ayrshire and Arran	£32.0m	£352	£594
22	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£40.2m	£368	£594
23	Clwyd North	£34.2m	£339	£593
24	Wallasey	£34.7m	£356	£590
25	Caerphilly	£34.8m	£360	£590
26	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£36.3m	£383	£588
27	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£36.5m	£373	£587
28	Neath and Swansea East	£36.9m	£365	£585
29	Glasgow South	£36.9m	£402	£582
30	Liverpool Garston	£33.4m	£351	£582
31	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£41.8m	£367	£580
32	Airdrie and Shotts	£35.0m	£374	£580
33	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£31.9m	£355	£578
34	Blackley and Middleton South	£40.7m	£356	£570
35	Swansea West	£41.7m	£375	£563
36	Dundee Central	£40.7m	£382	£559
37	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£29.4m	£326	£555
38	Kingston upon Hull East	£35.4m	£340	£552
39	Pontypridd	£36.1m	£345	£547
40	Dumfries and Galloway	£30.2m	£314	£545
41	Torbay	£32.9m	£315	£543
42	Wythenshawe and Sale East	£38.5m	£337	£541
43	Torfaen	£30.6m	£327	£540
44	Glasgow North	£46.9m	£414	£539
45	Sheffield Heeley	£37.3m	£341	£538
46	Redcar	£30.0m	£317	£536
47	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	£32.6m	£339	£533
48	Normanton and Hemsworth	£34.5m	£326	£531
49	Isle of Wight East	£20.0m	£288	£530
50	Central Ayrshire	£28.0m	£313	£526

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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