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Glasgow North East has the highest spending on Employment and Support Allowance per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

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.

Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Stalybridge and Hyde: £406 per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 127th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £214
  2. £214 to £295
  3. £295 to £376
  4. £376 to £456
  5. £456 to £537
  6. £537 and over
Spending on Employment and Support Allowance, per person aged 16 to 64, 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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641632Glasgow North East 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Liverpool Walton 3Rhondda and Ogmore 4Aberafan Maesteg 5Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 6Glasgow East 7West Dunbartonshire 8Blackpool South 9Knowsley 10Stalybridge and Hyde 127

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Stalybridge and Hyde, 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.

£26.7mFebruary 2023+£0.22mPopulation−£11.9mShare claiming−£4.2mPayment size£10.9mMarch 2026
What changed: Employment and Support Allowance
February 2023£26.7m
Population+£0.22m
Share claiming−£11.9m
Payment size−£4.2m
March 2026£10.9m
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.

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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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Glasgow North East£65.8m£572£805
2Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£46.5m£486£787
3Liverpool Walton£47.8m£466£738
4Rhondda and Ogmore£45.2m£447£721
5Aberafan Maesteg£40.5m£436£719
6Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare£42.2m£420£683
7Glasgow East£50.3m£477£680
8West Dunbartonshire£38.3m£418£669
9Blackpool South£44.6m£396£633
10Knowsley£39.3m£397£632
11Liverpool West Derby£40.0m£395£628
12Birkenhead£43.2m£393£628
13Bootle£41.0m£393£621
14Glasgow South West£42.8m£421£615
15Llanelli£33.9m£355£596
16Easington£34.7m£361£587
17Glasgow West£42.0m£411£585
18Coatbridge and Bellshill£36.0m£377£581
19North Ayrshire and Arran£31.0m£341£580
20Glenrothes and Mid Fife£33.0m£354£580
21Clwyd North£33.3m£329£574
22Caerphilly£33.9m£350£570
23Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£31.4m£348£570
24Liverpool Garston£32.2m£339£567
25Wallasey£33.6m£342£566
26Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£35.0m£358£564
27Paisley and Renfrewshire South£34.9m£365£564
28Nottingham North and Kimberley£38.2m£348£559
29Neath and Swansea East£35.6m£349£556
30Airdrie and Shotts£33.2m£354£549
31Liverpool Riverside£55.4m£421£549
32Glasgow South£35.4m£380£548
33Dundee Central£39.1m£370£545
34Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£39.3m£340£535
35Blackley and Middleton South£38.2m£331£532
36Dumfries and Galloway£29.4m£305£531
37Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£28.0m£311£531
38Swansea West£39.4m£349£525
39Kingston upon Hull East£33.6m£322£524
40Torbay£31.8m£303£523
41Pontypridd£34.5m£329£521
42Torfaen£29.6m£315£519
43Central Ayrshire£27.2m£304£514
44Normanton and Hemsworth£33.5m£314£513
45Wythenshawe and Sale East£36.4m£318£512
46Isle of Wight East£19.1m£276£509
47Glasgow North£44.9m£390£507
48Redcar£28.6m£299£506
49Paisley and Renfrewshire North£31.0m£320£504
50Sheffield Heeley£35.3m£317£499

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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