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Caerphilly has the highest spending on other benefits per resident in 2023-24.

Bereavement Benefit, Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on other benefits, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £4.27
  2. £4.27 to £5.32
  3. £5.32 to £6.36
  4. £6.36 to £7.40
  5. £7.40 to £8.45
  6. £8.45 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on other benefits, 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.

TotalPer resident1632Caerphilly 1Wirral West 2Na h-Eileanan an Iar 3Halifax 4West Dunbartonshire 5Blackpool North and Fleetwood 6Derbyshire Dales 7North Ayrshire and Arran 8Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe 9East Renfrewshire 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, State Pension: 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.

Benefit
£120.7bnFebruary 2023+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£15.0bnPayment size£143.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£120.7bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
Payment size+£15.0bn
March 2026£143.4bn
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.

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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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 other benefits, 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 other benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Caerphilly£1.1m£12
2Wirral West£1.0m£11
3Na h-Eileanan an Iar£0.28m£11Shared out, Estimated
4Halifax£1.1m£10
5West Dunbartonshire£0.93m£10Shared out, Estimated
6Blackpool North and Fleetwood£0.96m£9.87
7Derbyshire Dales£0.90m£9.84
8North Ayrshire and Arran£0.89m£9.84Shared out, Estimated
9Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£0.90m£9.78
10East Renfrewshire£0.96m£9.74Shared out, Estimated
11Clwyd East£0.93m£9.63
12Hexham£0.91m£9.57
13Airdrie and Shotts£0.89m£9.54Shared out, Estimated
14St Helens South and Whiston£0.92m£9.46
15Gower£0.93m£9.45
16East Kilbride and Strathaven£0.91m£9.39Shared out, Estimated
17Newark£1.0m£9.34
18Barrow and Furness£0.91m£9.33
19Weald of Kent£0.91m£9.29
20Weston-super-Mare£0.92m£9.26
21Rutherglen£0.87m£9.14Shared out, Estimated
22Alloa and Grangemouth£0.86m£9.07Shared out, Estimated
23Beverley and Holderness£0.82m£9.05
24Bangor Aberconwy£0.85m£9.04
25Glenrothes and Mid Fife£0.83m£8.96Shared out, Estimated
26Whitehaven and Workington£0.84m£8.95
27Llanelli£0.85m£8.95
28Dwyfor Meirionnydd£0.85m£8.88
29Camborne and Redruth£0.89m£8.81
30Jarrow and Gateshead East£0.84m£8.73
31Redditch£0.86m£8.66
32Arbroath and Broughty Ferry£0.87m£8.65Shared out, Estimated
33North Somerset£0.82m£8.61
34Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£0.82m£8.58
35Stretford and Urmston£0.89m£8.56
36Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber£0.81m£8.55Shared out, Estimated
37Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£0.77m£8.55Shared out, Estimated
38Plymouth Moor View£0.87m£8.55
39Aberafan Maesteg£0.78m£8.51
40Easington£0.80m£8.44
41West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine£0.83m£8.41Shared out, Estimated
42Birmingham Yardley£0.97m£8.39
43Cheadle£0.82m£8.38
44Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr£0.83m£8.37
45Ynys Môn£0.58m£8.32
46Herne Bay and Sandwich£0.84m£8.28
47Bassetlaw£0.90m£8.28
48South Leicestershire£0.87m£8.26
49Penistone and Stocksbridge£0.74m£8.24
50Hastings and Rye£0.86m£8.21

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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